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Old 10-28-2006, 01:21 PM   #1
leandrog_h
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Wlan WEP and not WEP problems


Hi community, i am having some problems when i want my wlan to work...
I have installes a wireless card on ma slack 10.2 server, and i want it to connect to my netgear wireless router, but after lots of attempts, i keep on failng....
At the beggining i tryed t do it with a static ip and a WEP key, but didnt work, so i tred an easier way, by dhcp and without a key. But this is what i get:

root@GRANDJEAN:~# iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSIDff/any
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.412GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:54Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=-109 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
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


root@GRANDJEAN:~# iwconfig wlan0 essid "GRANDJEAN"
root@GRANDJEAN:~# iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"GRANDJEAN"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:90:4C:7E:00:10
Bit Rate:24Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=-109 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
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


root@GRANDJEAN:~# ifconfig wlan0 up
root@GRANDJEAN:~# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:90:4C:7E:00:10
ESSID:""
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462GHz
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-11 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption keyff
Bit Rate:1Mb/s
Bit Rate:2Mb/s
Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
Bit Rate:11Mb/s
Bit Rate:18Mb/s
Bit Rate:24Mb/s
Bit Rate:36Mb/s
Bit Rate:54Mb/s
Bit Rate:6Mb/s
Bit Rate:9Mb/s
Bit Rate:12Mb/s
Bit Rate:48Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0

As u may notice, the access point adress, is the same one whrn i scan and in iwonfig, so it should work., but then:

root@GRANDJEAN:~# dhclient wlan0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

wlan0: not found

If you did not get this software from ftp.isc.org, please
get the latest from ftp.isc.org and install that before
requesting help.

If you did get this software from ftp.isc.org and have not
yet read the README, please read it before requesting help.
If you intend to request help from the dhcp-server@isc.org
mailing list, please read the section on the README about
submitting bug reports and requests for help.

Please do not under any circumstances send requests for
help directly to the authors of this software - please
send them to the appropriate mailing list as described in
the README file.

exiting.

My router is configured as to dhcp, so i dont know why is that it aint working.

More info, When my router is not as dhcp, dhcpclient wla0 seems to work, it looks for ip, but, ofcourse, i cant find any.

I have read that if i enter de essid an the key, and then i check it by iwconfig, and i can see that de router mac addr and the one that iwconfig shows r the same, it must work by typing dhcpclient, but it does not!!!!!
Dont know what else to do.
 
Old 10-28-2006, 01:29 PM   #2
leandrog_h
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sorry, i forgot to tell u. When i configure it with WEP, i have tryed it not being hex and being hex. My router does not support hex keys, and when i try to put 0x, it doesnt either, because of the length of the key.
In slack, when i put it not hex, de ap mac adrr is correct, but when it is hex in slack, not hex in router, the mac addrr is not.
 
  


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