Toshiba P10 Atheros 5213 wifi driver setup
Hi there everybody!!
As the nick says I am new to Linux and need help. . . so if anyone out there has some suggestions I would appreciate them. I am using Mandriva 2006 on my Toshiba P10. This laptop has an Atheros 5213 wireless interface and I have installed the madwifi drivers for it. . . .now here is where I am unable to fathom why it is not working. . . iwconfig sees my interface on ath0; [root@192 paul]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth1 no wireless extensions. wifi0 no wireless extensions. ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"linksys" Nickname:"192.168.0.1" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.447 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:6D61-706C-656A-6F79 Security mode:restricted Power Management:off Link Quality=52/94 Signal level=-43 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm Rx invalid nwid:505 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 eth0 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. but I still have no connection to the wireless for the internet. when I have the Cabel plugged into the laptop it works like a charm, but when I try to go wireless it does not connect. now when it boots I get a wifi0 that tries to setup, but is unable to because it can not get IP information. How do I setup this??? is this the problem?? HHHHHEEEEEEEELLLLLLLPPPPPPP. . . . . LOL! LinuxMandrivaNewbie |
Where is your access point?
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if your router still has stock settings
try this from root # wlanconfig ath0 destroy # wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta # ifconfig ath0 up # dhcpcd ath0 # ping -c 1 google.com |
Ok, I tried all that but it did not work. Is it something to do with the router and WEP password? Is there a way to make sure that the pass phrase is passed before trying to connect? Or am I in Left field?
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ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:96:96:8B:9B
inet6 addr: fe80::290:96ff:fe96:8b9b/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:3F:D3:6A:24 inet addr:192.168.1.102 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::202:3fff:fed3:6a24/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1247 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3689 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:607629 (593.3 KiB) TX bytes:367438 (358.8 KiB) Interrupt:19 Base address:0x4800 eth1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-02-3F-44-4F-00-00-B6-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:6 dropped:6 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:775 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:775 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:43324 (42.3 KiB) TX bytes:43324 (42.3 KiB) wifi0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:96:96:8B:9B inet6 addr: fe80::290:96ff:fe96:8b9b/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5002 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:3347 TX packets:12320 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:199 RX bytes:386557 (377.4 KiB) TX bytes:602195 (588.0 KiB) Interrupt:18 Memory:e0fc0000-e0fd0000 is what I get from ifconfig. I don't know if this helps at all. . |
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