Yet Another wireless question. Mandriva on Presario R4000

Ashex · 08-27-2006, 02:39 PM

I recently decided to migrate my laptop over to linux (My desktop is running Kubuntu Dapper, so i decided to try something a little different), and I chose Mandriva for my distribution.
Shortly after installing everything was detected, it was like magic! Video, sound, even ethernet.
I then decided to configure the wireless card, I used ndiswrapper and the steps I followed are pretty much identical to those described in This post.
I installed the wpa package and got everything up to snuff.
Yet for some reason, i couldn't get it to connect to my router.

At first I used the Network Monitoring tool to connect, but it was too vague in errors, so I went into terminal and did a dhclient wlan0, to which it stated No DHCPOFFERS received. basically timed out. the feedback is such:

Quote:

[root@Chipnick ahmed]# dhclient wlan0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

eth0: unknown hardware address type 24
eth0: unknown hardware address type 24
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:ea:23:16
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:ea:23:16
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

This is from iwconfig:

Code:

[root@Chipnick ahmed]# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"Chipnick"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm
          RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-10 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:22540   Missed beacon:0

I also did a grep of dmesg for wlan:

Code:

[root@Chipnick ahmed]# dmesg | grep wlan
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:4b:ea:23:16 using driver bcmwl5, configuration file 14E4:4320.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
ndiswrapper: device wlan0 removed
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:4b:ea:23:16 using driver bcmwl5, configuration file 14E4:4320.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP
ndiswrapper: device wlan0 removed
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:4b:ea:23:16 using driver bcmwl5, configuration file 14E4:4320.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

I've confirmed that my wireless network is working and that the ssid and wpa key are correct, yet for some reason it's not working for me :/

Brian1 · 08-27-2006, 03:14 PM

First thing to do is turn off all encryption, mac and ip filtering if enabled. Connect with no encryption enabled. Does it Connect? If so start enabling addition security till it does not.

Brian1

Ashex · 08-27-2006, 04:29 PM

I can't really play around with the wireless settings, since my roommates use it too. I tried it with WEP (I upgraded the network today from wep to wpa) and didn't have any luck with it either.

Ashex · 08-27-2006, 05:28 PM

Pardon the double post. I went ahead and changed the encryption on the network, and had no luck, this is the logs:

Code:

[root@Chipnick ahmed]# dhclient wlan0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

eth0: unknown hardware address type 24
eth0: unknown hardware address type 24
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:ea:23:16
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:ea:23:16
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

Code:

[root@Chipnick ahmed]# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"Chipnick"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm
          RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-10 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:132732   Missed beacon:0

I used Mandriva Control center to reconfigure the wireless settings, but it appears as though it didn't make any actual changes.

I tried to do it manually using iwconfig, but for some reason i received errors trying to set the encryption:

Code:

[root@Chipnick ahmed]# iwconfig wlan0 key giga26southbridge
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    invalid argument "giga26southbridge".
[root@Chipnick ahmed]# iwconfig wlan0 essid Chipnick.com
[root@Chipnick ahmed]# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"Chipnick"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm
          RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-10 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:137708   Missed beacon:0

[root@Chipnick ahmed]#

update: I poked around a little more, and this shows up repeatedly in dmesg when i try dhclient wlan0:

Code:

ndiswrapper (iw_get_essid:167): getting essid failed (C00000BB)
ndiswrapper (iw_get_essid:167): getting essid failed (C00000BB)
ndiswrapper (iw_get_essid:167): getting essid failed (C00000BB)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
ndiswrapper (iw_get_essid:167): getting essid failed (C00000BB)
ndiswrapper (iw_get_essid:167): getting essid failed (C00000BB)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)

Also, I opened up /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
even though when i use iwconfig to add things in and it doesn't reflect the changes there, it does in the config file.

Code:

DEVICE=wlan0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
IPADDR="No IP"
NETMASK="No Mask"
BROADCAST=255
ONBOOT=yes
HWADDR=00:13:10:F0:2D:26
METRIC=30
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no
USERCTL=yes
WIRELESS_MODE=Managed
WIRELESS_ESSID=Chipnick.com
WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="open s:giga26southbridge"
WIRELESS_WPA_DRIVER=ndiswrapper
IPV6INIT=no
IPV6TO4INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient
NEEDHOSTNAME=yes
PEERDNS=yes
PEERYP=no
PEERNTPD=no

sco1984 · 08-28-2006, 09:10 AM

First of it is important to know which wireless chip is inside ur laptop?
It's Intel 2200 or Etheros ? Usually Mandriva prompts to download drivers for
respective wireless chip from some web site. I had similar problem. I downloaded
patch and applied to some path and my wireless card started working fine. I have
IBM ThinkPad R50e which has Intel 2200 a/b/g wireless inbuilt chip.

Regard's,
Amey Abhyankar.

Ashex · 08-28-2006, 10:13 AM

I checked my wireless chipset previously, and it is a Broadcom 4306 (BCM43XX), the proprietary peice of poo :P. As far as I know my only option is to use ndiswrapper to load the windows driver for the wireless card.