How to set up WiFi with Raspbian "wheezy"

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I have been trying to setup up WiFi with my Raspberry Pi Model A (meaning I don't have a internet connection currently), running Raspbian 2013. I have tried several things to setup my WiFi but none of them worked:

The manual approach:

http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-3-network-setup/setting-up-wifi-with-occidentalis

This gave me boot errors, and I never was able to connect to the internet.

The GUI approach:

http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-3-network-setup/setting-up-wifi-with-raspbian

My network flag is WEP, and it has a pass-phrase but wpa_config never asked for one and I was unable to connect.

I have tried several other different approaches but they all led down to these 2 basic approaches...

I am using a Tenda USB WiFi adapter that is compatible with my Pi, and my network is a WEP network with a password. Any suggestions? Thanks!

This is what I used: http://www.ronnutter.com/raspberry-pi-adding-wifi-wpawpa2-using-wpa_cli/ . PS it would be helpful if you posted the contents /etc/network/interfaces you used in the manual approach — Gerben, Jun 08 '13 at 20:11
@Gerben Thank you for your suggestion, I figured my issue, thanks though! — user151324, Jun 08 '13 at 20:33
@coding_corgi could you please post your solution as an answer if you figured out your problem? — ramblinjan, Oct 25 '13 at 16:21
@coding_corgi Could you please post your solution as an answer? We are trying to get this site up to par and that will help! — RPiAwesomeness, Jan 11 '14 at 13:31

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 03 '14 at 22:59

Both those approaches you've linked are WPA based. If your network really is WEP, it's a slightly different process. Try editing the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file and adding something like this:

network={
    ssid="static-wep-test"
    key_mgmt=NONE
    wep_key0="abcde"
    wep_key1=0102030405
    wep_tx_keyidx=0
    priority=5
}

If that doesn't work you can try configuring it manually from the command line with the iwconfig utility:

iwconfig wlan0 essid "MyNetwork" key "s:password"

Drop the "s:" if your WEP key is a hexadecimal code rather than a string password. (In the wpa_supplicant example use "" for a password and without for a hexadecimal code.)

I had the same issue, however, if you're using a "string" for your key (rather than hex) you can simply change /etc/network/interfaces to the following (you don't need to bother with the wpa_supplicant at all)
`auto lo

iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0 allow-hotplug wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wireless-essid your-SSID wireless-key s:yourpasswordstring` — patrickdavey, Sep 17 '14 at 10:07

How to set up WiFi with Raspbian "wheezy"

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