Lenny wifi on my AOA 150

Hi,

I've been working to get Debian Lenny going most of the weekend, from what I can tell I have everything working but wifi (no surprise to me). I think it has something to do with my WEP encryption. I can "see" other wireless routers in my neighborhood. I can also scan with CLI and see other routers nearby.

I have put the hex key into the wicd gui blank for my access point and when I try to connect, nothing happens. I think I'm having problems with DHCP assigning an IP address to the netbook. Surely I don't have to assign the WEP key in /etc/network/interfaces?

From CLI, if I enter

Code:

# dhclient ath0

Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit [url]http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/[/url]

wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/ath0/00:23:4d:d2:33:9f
Sending on   LPF/ath0/00:23:4d:d2:33:9f
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
^C

Anyone have suggestions?

 

Ok,

I've been able to get it to work if I:

Code:

# iwpriv ath0 authmode 1
# iwconfig ath0 key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
# dhclient ath0        
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit [url]http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/[/url]

wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/ath0/ the mac address
Sending on   LPF/ath0/ the mac address
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPNAK from 192.168.2.1
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.2.1
DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.2.1
bound to 192.168.2.9 -- renewal in 904194283 seconds.

So why do I manually have to make the connection and the GUI doesn't stick?

Rich