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Wireless Assistant (wlassistant) is a small application that allows you to connect to wireless networks.
* MAIN FEATURES:
- WPA-PSK Encryption Support (WPA/WPA2)
- WEP Encryption Support
- Not Broadcasted ("hidden") ESSIDs Support
- Per Network (AP) Configuration Profiles
- Automatic (DHCP, both dhcpcd and dhclient) and manual configuration options.
- Connection status monitoring.
* MAIN REQUIREMENTS:
- wireless-tools 27 or newer (with iwlib)
- dhcpcd or dhclient
- sudo
- wpa_supplicant with wpa_cli for WPA-PSK support
* Example sudo config: If you want to e.g. allow all users from some group to use wlassistant, add the following line to your /etc/sudoers:
%{group_name} ALL=NOPASSWD: {path_to_kde}/bin/wlassistant
* MADWIFI WPA-PSK: If your card uses a madwifi driver, make sure it's madwifi-ng.
* NDISWRAPPER WPA-PSK: make sure you use ndiswrapper version newer than 1.13.
13 years ago
*** RELEASE 0.5.7:
* NOTE: This release includes some brand new or rewritten features. Please submit bugs to sf.net page and comments/votes here. Thanks!
* NEW: Finally WPA-PSK support (WPA/WPA2, please test and report in case of problems!)
* NEW/FIX: Rewritten, completely new connection state detection (please comment!)
* NEW: Optional grouping of APs with the same ESSID
* FIX: UI refinements
* FIX: hide encryption keys in console output and edit dialogs
* FIX: Connection using dhclient fails
* FIX: don't check for connection while wizard is running
* FIX: remove default gateway upon disconnection if not managed by DHCP client
* FIX: updated Polish translation (with help from riklaunim)
* FIX: Many internal changes, more stable
13 years ago
*** RELEASE 0.5.7:
* NOTE: This release includes some brand new or rewritten features. Please submit bugs to sf.net page and comments/votes here. Thanks!
* NEW: Finally WPA-PSK support (WPA/WPA2, please test and report in case of problems!)
* NEW/FIX: Rewritten, completely new connection state detection (please comment!)
* NEW: Optional grouping of APs with the same ESSID
* FIX: UI refinements
* FIX: hide encryption keys in console output and edit dialogs
* FIX: Connection using dhclient fails
* FIX: don't check for connection while wizard is running
* FIX: remove default gateway upon disconnection if not managed by DHCP client
* FIX: updated Polish translation (with help from riklaunim)
* FIX: Many internal changes, more stable
LiveJay
13 years ago
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ohcalcutta
13 years ago
Recently, Kubuntu 7.10 failed again (KNetworkManager never liked my laptops an d I never liked it). Wireless Assistant again did it.
Love it. Thanks pnawrocki.
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rumcho
13 years ago
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netpumber
13 years ago
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BorgQueen
13 years ago
Keep getting this error with the new version
scons: *** No tool named 'parser': not a Zip file
What am I missing?
Thanks!
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typomaster
13 years ago
I have an Acer Ferrari 3400 running FC7. I am pretty much a noobie, but I manged to install the lastest wl_apsta.o and bcm43xx-006. I also have installed wlassistant.
I am able to use wlassistant to scan the neighbourhood and see all the networks. I am able to connect with those that do not have any encription. I cannot connect to my LAN with has WEP. I have a Dlink router holding my lan together. The settings are open with a hex key. Windows connects without a problem, but FC7 will not connect. My router is listed in the scan and it correctly tells me it uses WEP.
My encription is 10-decimals. If I enter the decimals into Windows, it works, but not in FC7
Please forgive the typos...I am, after all, typomaster
typomaster
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pnawrocki
13 years ago
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andlog6
13 years ago
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pnawrocki
13 years ago
"locate wlassistantrc" should give you the result.
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MattM
13 years ago
What am I missing here??? Thanks.
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pnawrocki
13 years ago
First, try to 'forget' current settings for the network, if it was configured before WPA was enabled on the access point, then try to connect with reconfiguring.
In case this doesn't work - make sure that "iwlist <iface> scan" returns WPA parameters for your network (post output if unsure).
Cheers
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darkborg
13 years ago
I have the same same problem questions marks for WPA... my adapter is a dwl-g122 versio b1, now if I do lsusb shows fine..so what are you suggesting is to the use ndiswrapper...
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pnawrocki
13 years ago
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trevi55
13 years ago
Bye!
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entrax
13 years ago
when will this new version be available in gentoo?
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pnawrocki
13 years ago
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173313
to monitor the the progress. Cheers.
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nbecker
13 years ago
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pnawrocki
13 years ago
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davepb
13 years ago
I've install version 0.5.7 and it detects my WPA2 network as WEP. Why would it be doing this?
btw: I've never had any luck using wpa_supplicant to connect to my WPA2-PSK network. I've always had to use the iwpriv command. It seems to be more reliable.
Cheers
Dave
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pnawrocki
13 years ago
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davepb
13 years ago
This is the output of iwlist rausb0 scan
rausb0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:14:7F:94:4E:90
ESSID:"BTHomeHub-B061"
Mode:Managed
Channel:1
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:0 kb/s
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pnawrocki
13 years ago
http://www.nabble.com/Re:-rt73-driver-trouble-t3523306.html
it's your wireless card driver that implements WPA in a non-standard way (not through Wireless Extensions). As suggested in the above-mentioned thread, it seems like choosing installing ndiswrapper and using the native windows driver is the best solution if you want to connect to a WPA-protected network. Let me know how that worked.
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davepb
13 years ago
Thanks for your reply.
Sadly I can't use the native windows drivers as I run 64-bit Linux and Belkin never release 64-bit windows drivers.
Thanks anyway.
dave
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pnawrocki
13 years ago
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ohcalcutta
13 years ago
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