[ILUG] Wireless setup and eircom routers

[Kevin Philp]

I am trying to set up a wireless connection between a RT2500 wireless 
card and an Eircom Netopia router. With all security turned off it works 
fine but I can't seem to get the card to authenticate with the router 
when I use WPAPSK. The setup is based on the Ubuntu wiki article on the 
RT2500 
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/RalinkRT2500?action=show&redirect=Rt2500WirelessCardsHowTo)

Any pointers to whats wrong would be appreciated.

Netopia Router:
essid eircom1130
WPA-PSK - mykey

On the server:
/etc/network/interfaces

auto ra0
iface ra0 inet dhcp
pre-up ifconfig ra0 up
pre-up ifconfig ra0 down
pre-up ifconfig ra0 up
pre-up ifconfig ra0 down
pre-up iwconfig ra0 essid eircom1130
pre-up iwconfig ra0 mode Managed
pre-up iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
pre-up iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP
pre-up iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK=mykey
pre-up ifconfig ra0 up