REVO Wifi Setup

   November 2, 2009  Posted in XBMC

So you have a Acer Revo 3600 and have installed XBMC and now would like to get the wifi working

Here is a bit of a guide all of it if from the command line in terminal

There are a fwe things that we will need to install to get wifi working on the revo so lets jump in

With your XBMC up and running press the following keys

alt+ctrl+f2 this will take you to the terminal ( you can also do this via ssh)

then login

type the following commands

sudo apt-get install wireless-tools
sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant

Verify that your network device (“wlan0”?) is working with the following command

iwconfig

If you are running WPA mode on your wireless router then you will need to do the following

convert your ascii password with the following command

wpa_passphrase <Your ESSID> <Your pass phrase>

so if you put somthing like wpa_passphrase Test 12345678 you will get somthing like the following

network={
ssid=”test”
#psk=”12345678″
psk=fe727aa8b64ac9b3f54c72432da14faed933ea511ecab1 5bbc6c52e7522f709a
}

you are interested in the resulting psk=fe727aa8b64ac9b3f54c72432da14faed933ea511ecab1 5bbc6c52e7522f709a

OK so if you are sill following at this point the next command to issue is

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

You will see somthing like this

This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

You will need to replace the last 2 lines with the following

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-driver wext
wpa-ssid “your_essid”
wpa-ap-scan 1
wpa-proto WPA RSN
wpa-pairwise TKIP CCMP
wpa-group TKIP CCMP
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-psk “your_hex_key” [IMPORTANT: See “WPA-PSK key generation”]

You should have somthing like this

This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
# auto eth0
# iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-driver wext
wpa-ssid “your_essid”
wpa-ap-scan 1
wpa-proto WPA RSN
wpa-pairwise TKIP CCMP
wpa-group TKIP CCMP
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-psk “your_hex_key” [IMPORTANT: See “WPA-PSK key generation”]

You will then need to save by pressing ctrl X you will then be asked to save answer yes

Lets explain some of the commands above

  1. auto wlan0 = Your network interface (e.g. wlan0, eth1, rausb0, ra0, etc.)
  2. iface wlan0 inet dhcp = Self-explanatory… I am using a DHCP. “iface wlan0” must correspond to your network interface (see above).
  3. wpa-driver = That’s the wpa-driver for your card (‘wext’ is a generic driver that is applicable when using “ndiswrapper”). Leave it as it is.
  4. wpaq-ssid = Your network’s ESSID (no quotes “”).
  5. wpa-ap-scan 1 = Broadcast of ESSID
  6. wpa-proto WPA RSN = WPA(2) / WPA(1)
  7. wpa-pairwise TKIP CCMP = “CCMP” = AES cipher as part of WPA(2) standard / TKIP cipher as part of WPA(1) standard
  8. wpa-group = “CCMP” = AES cipher as part of WPA(2) standard / TKIP cipher as part of WPA(1) standard
  9. wpa-key-mgmt = Authentication via pre-shared key

Some handy sites

Ubuntuforums Click Here

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