On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Cristopher Thomas <crisnoh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 27 February 2009 19:13:47 James Rayner wrote: >> The problem appeared to be a simple typo in the config file, however >> the OP has given up. *shrug* >> > > I don't know about it being a typo. Setting the encryption type to 'wap' > instead of 'wep' was the only way for me to ever get a connection. Here's the > error I got trying to use 'wep': > > [~]$ sudo netcfg home > :: home up - Could not set wireless configuration [FAIL] > for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : > SET failed on device wlan0 ; Device or resource busy. > I got that error everytime, whereas when I switched to 'wap' I would > occasionally get a connection. Usually after I had spent a while online in my > windows partition researching the problem. I know for a fact that the router > is set up for wep security, which is why I'm baffled about the profile not > working oh ok, i see the problem. In /usr/lib/network/wireless.subr search for "mode managed" and remove just that text. Theres a fix for this in netcfg git, but it needs testing and nobody is testing it, so I cant make a release. James.
