Setting Up WIFI

[dezi]

Yes!

To my experience, the wlan setup in XBian is at a very early implementation stage. It simply does not work yet.

The XBian image comes with a perfect setup for WLAN roaming. Read here for more information:

http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/WLAN/wpa_supplicant (LOL, ubuntu, sorry, in german)

The original content of /etc/network/interfaces looks like this:

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auto lo

iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp

allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
iface default inet dhcp
---------------

Bring it back to this with

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

Then do a

sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

and enter Your wireless lan and the credentitials and remove anything else. Make abackup before this if you like.

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network={
ssid="Your WLAN SSID"
proto=RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP
psk="YOUR WLAN PASSWORD IN CLEAR TEXT OR ENCRYPTED"
}
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Best thing is: You can have more than one WLAN roamed. Simple add more network sections to it. It will automatically connect to the local WLAN found.

If it does not work right away, You have to possibly modify proto, key_mgmt, group and pairwise to the correct TAGS Your WLAN understands.

get a list of available wlans on console with

iwlist wlan0 scan

You can read the required TAGS from this output.

If it works, do not enter the XBIAN WLAN config anymore, as it will replace the roaming.

Cheers
dezi