Wireless on Slack 12.2 used to work, now DHCPCD times out.
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Wireless on Slack 12.2 used to work, now DHCPCD times out.
Hey all,
I know questions of the form "wireless not working on <blank>" abound, but here is another! I can't cut and paste since I don't have a connection on the computer I am having trouble with but I will paraphrase the best I can.
lspci output:
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel ... PRO/wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)
iwconfig shows wlan0 up and running, and iwlist scanning shows the router. I used to be able to just run dhcpcd wlan0 and connect, but now I get a
"timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response"
Same deal running /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf (which might be the new way Slack connects to things).
Not sure if it's important, but I have a little indicator light on my laptop that tells me if wireless is running. Before I try dhcpcd, the light is on. After it times out, the light goes out and I have to redo everything (ifconfig wlan0 up etc....) in order to get the light back on.
Anyone have any ideas? I think I'm using the right driver for this, because it USED TO WORK!
Distribution: Slackware, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X
Posts: 5,296
Rep:
Hi thethinker, Have you made any changes to the router? Any recent updates, patches, etc.? If not, my first guess would be the wireless card going/gone bad. Do you have another card you can try?
changes to the router...not I do not believe so but my g/f could have done something and not told me. Something specific I could look out for?
And this is a laptop so I don't have another card that would work lying around the house at the moment. I've been trying more things (like configuring rc.d/rc.inet1.conf) with no luck. I did get this message:
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 wlan0_start
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: wlan0 information: 'Any ESSID'
Error for wireless request "Set Nuckname" (8B1C) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
Ok, sorry for the wait but if it's hard to post output when your computer has no internet access :-P Output like you requested is below, but things are a bit more clear now. It seems to be a router problem; I just installed Slack 12.2 on a super old laptop (AMD K6-2 333 MHz :-)) and it has the EXACT same problem as my badass laptop. So I'm guessing there are some router settings I'm having trouble with - router is Cisco Linksys E2000, works great on windows :-/. And actually, I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 now and it's working well there too! Is there maybe some kind of security difference between Slack and Ubuntu?
ifconfig -a:
Code:
irda0 Link encap:IrLAP HWaddr 00:00:00:00
NOARP MTU:2048 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:8
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:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:100 (100.0 B) TX bytes:100 (100.0 B)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:11:63:56:bc
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:23168 (22.6 KiB)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1B-11-63-56-BC-6C-6F-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
BROADCAST 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)
iwconfig: (the other interfaces were also listed as "no wireless extensions" but for whatever reason my iwconfig >> temp command didn't catch those)
Code:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"TheLovenasium"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:A111-A111-A1 Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
wlist wlan0 essid.....this didn't work. said essid was an unknown command to iwlist.
dhcpcd wlan0:
Code:
Broadcasting DHCP_DISCOVER
timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response
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