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Old 04-14-2011, 09:20 AM   #1
zaljereck
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Arrow Wireless Connection Not Working.....


Running FC14 with kernel 2.6.35.12-88 on Gnome desktop environment.
Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at f69fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>
Capabilities: [e8] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 33-30-5f-ff-ff-b5-00-22
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel driver in use: wl
Kernel modules: wl, ssb


Issue is as follows:
Just downloaded fresh drivers from Broadcom and installed. Looks like everything is ok. I CAN connect to my secure WPA2 encrypted network with 5/5 bars, but I get a generic 10. address and not a 192 address. I tried hard coding the IP address into the device. Also tried removing all encryption from the router and both to no avail. If I switch off my lan connection I cannot ping anything, even the router itself. The router is a WRT54G2 Linksys router. Never had an issue before today.

iwconfig:
eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"my_router_name" Nickname:""
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412 GHz Cell: 5E:64:AB:C3:8B:06
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:24 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementmode:All packets received
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=-57 dBm Noise level=-57 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


I've tried every basic thing I know and it isn't helping. Does anyone know what's going on?

Thanks in advance.
Wayne
 
Old 04-14-2011, 10:13 AM   #2
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iwconfig is showing the device running in AdHoc mode, which is certainly not what you want. Have you tried changing the mode back? You could use a command like:

Code:
iwconfig eth1 mode managed
 
Old 04-14-2011, 11:11 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by MS3FGX View Post
iwconfig is showing the device running in AdHoc mode, which is certainly not what you want. Have you tried changing the mode back? You could use a command like:

Code:
iwconfig eth1 mode managed
The only other mode I have available is Infrastructure. And I switched to that and it won't connect at all with that switched. Anything else you might suggest?
 
  


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