Hello forum,

I have a little problem at the moment with my wireless configuration! The problem seems to revolve around an encryption problem because I cant ping my router when I un-plug from the ethernet cable. However it says i'm connected. everything looks good and by all rigths I should be able to surf the web. I can connect to un-encrypted APs though, so I know that it is working. I have used Aliens wiki to get everything setup.

http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/...ckware:network

my wireless adapter is an Atheros AR5B93, the linux distro i'm using is Slackware 13.0. Any help would be great

Hi Melzanis, welcome to LQ. Please post the output from the following.

Good luck. ;-)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:2d:85:f7:13
inet addr:192.168.0.139 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::226:2dff:fe85:f713/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3902 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10101 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2690016 (2.5 MiB) TX bytes:1703226 (1.6 MiB)
Interrupt:16

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:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1476 (1.4 KiB) TX bytes:1476 (1.4 KiB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0b:6b:e7:a2:a0
inet addr:192.168.0.138 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20b:6bff:fee7:a2a0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6362 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4347289 (4.1 MiB) TX bytes:8527 (8.3 KiB)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-0B-6B-E7-A2-A0-65-74-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo no wireless extensions

eth0 no wireless extensions

wmaster0 no wireless extensions

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"Melzanis"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.427 GHz Access Point: 00:1C:F0:EB:02:59
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:E01A-8996-634A-F5F2-A04E-E8FA-27B6-4AB5-76D5-02E7-9085-010B-A765-BAE0-10FF-8FE2 [3] Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level:-48 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

What type of encryption is active on the the AP? Can you ping anything on the network?

Good luck. ;-)

the encryption type is WPA/WPA2 - Personal also including Wi-Fi Protected Setup : Enabled/Configured. I can only ping with the ethernet cable plugged in but not when its unpludgged and i'm "using wireless" so I can t ping my AP when i'm on wireless. but is says i'm connected and everything looks good. I'm not sure if im missing something in a config file

Have you setup and configured wpa_supplicant?

Good luck. ;-)

I know it's the lazy way to do things
BUT
have you tried wcid it's in the slackware/extras packages
it's done a good job for me at local hot spots
it dose a good job setting up encryption on an as needed bases

you most likely already have it so it's worth a try

Hey Peacedog,
as far as I know I have set all the settings outlined in http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/...ckware:network

as far as I know I configured all the right settings and it should be working.

What does your /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf look like? It wouldn't hurt to try rob's suggestion, just be sure to reset all of the the network scripts to their default values.

Good luck. ;-)

Hey Peacedog & rob.rice,

I dont know how to explain it but my wireless is now working. All I did was boot it up and start X, then I opened firefox and it started working. So ya I dont even know how it got fixed but it is. I just want to thank you both for taking the time to help/ give advice. So I will change the status of this thread as solved.

Thanks again to all that helped

Glad you got it sorted!

Good luck. ;-)