Centrino Mobile problem: Unable to connect to access points with device
Hey there everyone, I'm new to this so please bear with me.
I'm a linux newbie and I'm starting off with the new Mandrake 10 distribution, kernel 2.6.3. I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 with the (oh so problematic it seems) Intel Centrino Mobile Internal Wireless Device for 802.11b. I have everything up and running except for the horror that is Intel Wireless. I used the forums as well as some third party help to get ndiswrapper-0.6 setup and loaded the default driver. Everything seems to work ok, mode, essid, and the device is recognized, but I cannot connect to any access points. The adapter address always appears as the default FF:FF:FF... you get the idea. I tried to manually enter the access point just to see if it would connect that way, but unfortunately no it hasn't. I'm just curious if anyone else ran into this problem with Centrino and the ndiswrapper or if I'm just not doing something right. Any help would be appreciated, or suggestions. If you need any other information I can do my best to give it to you. Thanks to anyone who reads this and/or gives me some help. It's appreciated. |
post your output of
ifconfig iwconfig netstat -rn |
ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr [edited] inet addr:192.168.1.104 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20d:56ff:feae:fef9/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:349 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:544 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:7 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:159242 (155.5 Kb) TX bytes:65595 (64.0 Kb) Interrupt:11 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:224 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:224 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:16636 (16.2 Kb) TX bytes:16636 (16.2 Kb) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr [edit] inet6 addr: fe80::204:23ff:fea1:26ef/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:992 (992.0 b) Interrupt:11 Memory:faffc000-faffcfff iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412GHz Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF Bit Rate:11Mb/s RTS thr:1600 B Fragment thr:2344 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0/100 Signal level:-98 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 when I run "ifconfig wlan0 up" this also appears below my wlan0 wlan0:9 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:23:A1:26:EF inet addr:127.255.255.255 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Interrupt:11 Memory:faffc000-faffcfff There is the output... with just a small edit. But anyway, my ESSID isn't showing up now either, even after I use: iwconfig wlan0 key ######## iwconfig wlan0 essid ESSID although previously it appeared in the config Hope this helps you out then... and thanks for taking a look at my post. |
Make sure that you do not have more than one interface on the same network. eth0 and wlan0 can not be both on 192.168.1 network. Routing will be confused and you will not be able to send/receive packets.
use /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 to set your networking and wireless options for wlan0. Make sure to set your GATEWAY (IP address of machine that is your gateway/router machine on the same network). You will just set your gateway for your default interface whether it be eth0 or wlan0. You also need to make sure that that for both interfaces the NETMASK is set to 255.255.255.0 and BROADCAST is set to the first 3 digits of the network address with the 4th digit being 255. iwconfig syntax for setting the KEY is funky, what usually works for me is "restricted [1] XXXXXXXXXX" where XXXXXXXXXX is the hex value of the the key. |
Hey thanks!
I just got it all working today... not having any problems now. I appreciate the help. |
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