Acer TravelMate 6460 wireless problem
Hello,
You must be seriously tired off threads like this,but after a while I am quite tired off reinstalling(yep I am a newb) and searching for how to fix my wireless problem. I am quite new in the linux world and have installed Slackware 12.1 on my Acer TravelMate 6460 laptop. I've managed to install Slack and slackbuildgnome. and now my problem is. How to enable the wireless card(dont think I have installed it correctly) and connect to my wireless router. when i do a scan I get PHP Code:
iwconfig commands (it may be that Im doing something wrong..) I have NOT installed any Network Cards (dont know how,yes its true) so I hoped that it did it itself with some standard sources. When I do a lspci command I get this; PHP Code:
The main problem is that I cant connect to any wireless network (my is Tangedahl) and I have not installed any network cards (honnestly I dont know witch card I have) Hope for some big help her, and if so please explain in details so that I understand. Thanks for any answers in this matter. |
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I'm guessing that you haven't been able to configure the card yet. How you do that depends (at least a little) on your network. If you're using either no encryption or WEP encryption, you can just use iwconfig. Based on my experience, I suspect your wireless is called wlan0. Check the output of iwconfig to be sure however. Oh, and you do have to be root when configuring the card: iwconfig wlan0 essid Tangedahl iwconfig wlan0 key YourWEPKeyInHex (or you can do iwconfig wlan0 key s:YourWEPKeyInText) If those two have worked, if you look at iwconfig again, you should see a MAC address in the Access Point field. If that is there, then request an IP address: dhcpcd wlan0 If that goes without errors, you then should be good to go. However, if you use WPA encryption, you need to take a different method and use a program called wpa_supplicant (which should be part of the standard Slackware install). In that case you need to edit /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf so that your network configuration is present. It would look something like this: Code:
network={ wpa_supplicant -Bw -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlan0 Once you've associated with the AP, then you request an IP address with dhcpcd. If you want to go the GUI route, I've had excellent luck with wicd, and you can find slackbuild scripts for it at Slackbuilds.org. |
Thank you for your answer Hangdog42.
And the network has WEP key on it. Its a linksys router I have, I did all the commands that u said, and I've tried them before. However when i type "dhcpcd wlan0" it disapears when I do an ifconfig afterwards. so I try to ifconfig wlan0 up ,then it comes back, so when I try ping adress.somewhere it says unkown host. And you have correct when you guess that I havent been able to configure the card yet. So to this time I've done PHP Code:
on "iwconfig" it says mode:managed, hode this is correct? Any ideas of what Im doing wrong or any information I can put here that would help you to help me to get it working :) |
I'm guessing that there is a problem associating with the access point. Run the two iwconfig command and then post the output of iwconfig wlan0 so we can see what it looks like once it has been configured (but before dhcpcd has been run). Having wlan0 disappear from the ifconfig output is pretty normal if dhcpcd has failed.
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Okey, here is some more information,tell me if
theres something else I need to put here to. I start my laptop and hit the wireless power switch or what you want to call it (ByTheWay this switch does not light up when I hit it as it did in Windows) then when I have done that I check with ifconfig how it looks(NB I have done ifconfig eth0 down here before I check ifconfig,since I didnt want 2 network cards stacking) (This is the eth0 connection) PHP Code:
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at this moment. Ok, at this point I try to hit dhcpcd wlan0 and something happends (I dont get any information so I try ifconfig) PHP Code:
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This is unfortunate. Your iwconfig after you configured the card looks to be just fine. You've definitely associated with your access point, which is where you want to be.
What you need to do now is to dig into your log files (/var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog and dmesg output) and see if either the wireless card or dhcpcd are leaving any clues. You also might try running dhcpcd with the -S flag and see if that helps (it forces a second DHCP_DISCOVER message which can be useful sometimes). The other thing to try would be to set the IP address manually just to see if everything is actually working. There are three steps to this: 1) Set the IP address: ifconfig wlan0 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is a valid IP address for your lan. 2) Set the gateway: route add default gw yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy where yyy is the IP address of your router 3) Add at least one DNS server to /etc/resolv.conf: nameserver zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz Check your router, odds are there is a page that lists the DNS server your ISP has you using. Enter those. If you can't find it, try using the IP address of your router, that may work. After those three steps are done, you should be able to access the Internet. |
Thank you for your help Hangdog42,
I have now taken my laptop to my school and I was able to connect with the Wireless network here. But as it seems I cant make it work at home so I belive that the problem is now the key to login. I'll check on it laters. |
I would double-check the WEP key, but if it seems correct, try turning off WEP encryption temporarily and see if you can connect to your home router then. If you can, then the WEP key is definitely the issue. If you still can't, then there is some other problem.
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