Problem with Wireless connection to AP

frenchboy · 10-25-2009, 03:32 PM

Hello,

I just installed slackware 13 and i have problem with my NetGear WG311V3, i cannot connect on my AP, see below this:

Code:

root@darkstar:/# lspci -vv   
05:01.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Netgear WG311v3 802.11g Wireless PCI Adapter
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
        Region 0: Memory at febf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Region 1: Memory at febe0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Kernel driver in use: ndiswrapper

Code:

root@darkstar:/# ifconfig
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:1758 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1758 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:148692 (145.2 KiB)  TX bytes:148692 (145.2 KiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1b:2f:d0:c1:c8
          UP 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)
          Interrupt:17 Memory:febe0000-febf0000

Code:

root@darkstar:/# ping 127.0.0.1
PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.020 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.021 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.022 ms

Code:

root@darkstar:/etc# cat resolv.conf
search example.net

Code:

root@darkstar:/etc# sudo route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
loopback        *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo

Code:

root@darkstar:/# sudo dhclient wlan0                        
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2p1            
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.            
All rights reserved.                                        
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/          

Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:1b:2f:xxxxxxx
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:1b:2:xxxxxx
Sending on   Socket/fallback            
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
No DHCPOFFERS received.                                     
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

Thanks in advance.

sploot · 10-25-2009, 04:15 PM

post results of

Code:

#iwlist scanning

. It looks like maybe your wireless router is not configured to use dhcp?

frenchboy · 10-25-2009, 04:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sploot

post results of

Code:

#iwlist scanning

. It looks like maybe your wireless router is not configured to use dhcp?

My router is already DHCP On because i have 4 computers on Win XP and no problems.

Code:

root@darkstar:/# iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0     Scan completed :   

Cell 01 - Address: 00:21:63:XX:XX:XX 
ESSID:"French_Connection"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality:42/100  Signal level:-69 dBm  Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0

Thanks.

frenchboy · 10-25-2009, 08:00 PM

this is my modem interface by wifi :

LAN Interface
IP Address Subnet MAC Address Status
10.0.0.138 255.255.255.0 00:21:63:e9:bd:f0

WAN Interface
PVC VPI/VCI IP Address Subnet Gateway Encapsulation Status
PVC-0 8 /48 90.179.60.182 255.255.255.255 194.228.196.6 Route -PPPoE
PVC-1 8 /35 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 Bridge -RFC2684

maybe i have to change something ?

sploot · 10-25-2009, 08:00 PM

Another possibility is it looks as though you are connecting to a router with encryption. Try, for testing purposes, to disable the encryption and attempt to connect. If you can, then we have a direction to take.

frenchboy · 10-26-2009, 06:43 PM

i installed wicd, and i see my network, i put my wep key, but...
connection failed : Unable to Get IP Adress.

Any solutions ? Thanks.

bricedebrignaisplage · 10-27-2009, 07:51 PM

I may have a similar problem. My wireless device is working at work (unencrypted connection), but at home (WAP2 crypted) it does not show my network. At home I should be able to see up to 11 wireless networks (neighbors) all encrypted, but network manager and wicd refuse to list them. However, iwlist scanning shows them.

Have you tried to disable encryption? I haven't yet...

Weird thing: I have both Debian lenny and sid installed. In Lenny network manager displays all 11 networks, but in sid none. So either a package is missing in my sid installation, or it's a broken wireless issue (sid is unstable after all).

Anybody can help with that: why would network manager and wicd refuse to list encrypted networks, while iwlist can, and why it would list unencrypted networks properly?

frenchboy · 10-28-2009, 06:17 PM

Problem solved for me (not really but...), i put my router in WPA, and it work in WPA but not WEP, thanks.