Wireless device suddenly not working

shiv_379 · 08-14-2006, 12:08 PM

Yet more proof than Linux hates me

I have an fujitsu-siemens laptop with Kubuntu Dapper installed dual booting with windows XP. I've had it set up for a while now and had no problems. Recently I configured the wireless networking to have a fixed IP address and I'm fairly sure I remember it working like that (it was quite late at night, memory a little fuzzy). I booted into windows today because my torrents seem to run faster there, and I was using the wired network (also setup to fixed IP, for port forwarding). I rebooted to Linux and forgot to turn the wireless switch on the front of my laptop back on. Of course Linux didn't detect the wireless device, but when i remembered and switched it on it still didn't recognise! I've tried rebooting, tried undoing the fixed IP, all the basics but still it can't quite recognise a wireless device.

I can't ping or connect to my router (192.168.1.1), KNetwork Manager doesn't show any wireless devices / networks, but the network setup in system settings does show both the wired and wireless network devices (eth0 eth1). IFConfig also shows both devices (plus the loopback), but trying to ping anything returns unknown host.

The network seems to function correctly with a direct cable connection, it's just the wireless that is refusing to work.

ifconfig:

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:03:0D:34:DD:D8
          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:217 Base address:0x6c00

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:12:F0:D3:12:24
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:11 errors:982 dropped:982 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:2304 (2.2 KiB)
          Interrupt:217 Base address:0x8000 Memory:fa9fe000-fa9fefff

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1032 (1.0 KiB)  TX bytes:1032 (1.0 KiB)

/var/log/messages

Code:

Aug 12 17:36:21 localhost kernel: [17179591.656000] ieee80211_1_1_13: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.1.13
Aug 12 17:36:21 localhost kernel: [17179591.656000] ieee80211_1_1_13: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Aug 12 17:36:21 localhost kernel: [17179591.668000] ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7
Aug 12 17:36:21 localhost kernel: [17179591.668000] ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Aug 12 17:36:21 localhost kernel: [17179591.768000] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.1
Aug 12 17:36:21 localhost kernel: [17179591.768000] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
Aug 12 17:36:21 localhost kernel: [17179591.768000] Warning: PCI driver ipw2200 has a struct device_driver shutdown method, please update!
...
Aug 12 17:36:21 localhost kernel: [17179591.768000] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection

...
Aug 12 17:36:21 localhost kernel: [17179592.208000] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZR (14 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
...
Aug 12 17:36:21 localhost kernel: [17179593.060000] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK loaded
Aug 12 17:36:21 localhost kernel: [17179593.060000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 217
Aug 12 17:36:21 localhost kernel: [17179593.060000] eth0: RTL8169 at 0xf8956c00, 00:03:0d:34:dd:d8, IRQ 217
Aug 12 17:36:21 localhost kernel: [17179593.640000] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Aug 12 17:36:21 localhost kernel: [17179593.648000] r8169: eth0: link down

system log:

Code:

12/08/06 17:52:53	localhost	dhclient	

12/08/06 17:52:53	localhost	dhclient	All rights reserved.

12/08/06 17:52:53	localhost	dhclient	Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.

12/08/06 17:52:53	localhost	dhclient	DHCPRELEASE on eth1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67

12/08/06 17:52:53	localhost	dhclient	For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

12/08/06 17:52:53	localhost	dhclient	Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3

12/08/06 17:52:53	localhost	dhclient	Listening on LPF/eth1/00:12:f0:d3:12:24

12/08/06 17:52:53	localhost	dhclient	Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:12:f0:d3:12:24

12/08/06 17:52:53	localhost	dhclient	Sending on   Socket/fallback

12/08/06 17:52:53	localhost	dhclient	send_packet: Network is unreachable

12/08/06 17:52:53	localhost	dhclient	send_packet: please consult README file regarding broadcast address.

12/08/06 17:52:54	localhost	dhclient	

12/08/06 17:52:54	localhost	dhclient	All rights reserved.

12/08/06 17:52:54	localhost	dhclient	Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.

12/08/06 17:52:54	localhost	dhclient	For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

12/08/06 17:52:54	localhost	dhclient	Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3

12/08/06 17:52:55	localhost	dhclient	Listening on LPF/eth1/00:12:f0:d3:12:24

12/08/06 17:52:55	localhost	dhclient	Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:12:f0:d3:12:24

12/08/06 17:52:55	localhost	dhclient	Sending on   Socket/fallback

12/08/06 17:52:58	localhost	dhclient	DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3

12/08/06 17:53:01	localhost	dhclient	DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5

12/08/06 17:53:06	localhost	dhclient	DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14

12/08/06 17:53:20	localhost	dhclient	DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11

12/08/06 17:53:31	localhost	dhclient	DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10


12/08/06 17:53:41	localhost	dhclient	DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18

12/08/06 17:53:59	localhost	dhclient	No DHCPOFFERS received.

12/08/06 17:53:59	localhost	dhclient	No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

Eth0 is the wired device, and Eth1 is the wireless.

Anyone have any suggestions? please?
I've been hoping to move to Linux on a more permenant basis, but setbacks like this are...offputting to say the least.

Sorry about the book, figured the more I provided you with the more likely someone would be able to help!

~Shiv

fueldistributa · 08-14-2006, 01:34 PM

ok, if you are using ndiswrapper it sounds like when you we're setting up your device you forgot to modprobe ndiswrapper at the end.
And when you restart your system the ndiswrapper module isn't getting loaded.
The command for that is: ndiswrapper -m.

But that's if you're using ndiswrapper. And this is a pretty wild guess just try it out.

Ciao

shiv_379 · 08-15-2006, 01:02 PM

Tried that command but no luck (command ndiswrapper not found). I didn't set up the wireless myself, that was all done automagically when I installed Kubuntu.

I've managed to dig out some more bits of info that may or may not be useful. First of all, using the Wifi Manager instead of KNetwork manager it can see the wireless networks but can't seem to connect to any of them.

In console mode I noticed that if I turn the wireless switch off at the front of the laptop nothing overt happens, however if I switch it on again I get the kernel error:

Code:

[17182607.236000] ipw2200: Failed to send SCAN_ABORT: Command timed out.
[17182608.252000] ipw2200: Failed to send CARD_DISABLE: Command timed out.

Another thing that might be of use, an "iwlist eth1 scanning" gives:

Code:

eth1      Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:F5:9E:E1:73
                    ESSID:"BTVOYAGER2091-73"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:6
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 24 36 48 54 
                    Quality=68/100  Signal level=-59 dBm  
                    Extra: Last beacon: 364ms ago
          Cell 02 - Address: 00:11:F5:98:7D:80
                    ESSID:"BTVOYAGER2091-80"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:8
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 24 36 48 54 
                    Quality=33/100  Signal level=-80 dBm  
                    Extra: Last beacon: 360ms ago
          Cell 03 - Address: 00:14:BF:61:ED:D0
                    ESSID:"Duncan"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:10
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 24 36 48 54 
                    Quality=41/100  Signal level=-76 dBm  
                    Extra: Last beacon: 940ms ago
          Cell 04 - Address: 00:0F:B5:B4:25:6E
                    ESSID:"NETGEAR"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:11
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 9 11 6 12 18 24 36 48 54 
                    Quality=85/100  Signal level=-84 dBm  
                    Extra: Last beacon: 3372ms ago
          Cell 05 - Address: 00:14:7C:B7:4F:F2
                    ESSID:"Hobgoblin"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:13
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 22 24 36 48 54 
                    Quality=85/100  Signal level=-45 dBm  
                    Extra: Last beacon: 248ms ago
          Cell 06 - Address: 00:0F:B5:BB:D0:D8
                    ESSID:"<hidden>"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:12
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 9 11 6 12 18 24 36 48 54 
                    Quality=46/100  Signal level=-73 dBm  
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP 
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP 
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK  
                    Extra: Last beacon: 3308ms ago

How do you connect to a wireless network in console mode? I hade a poke around iwconfig,ifconfig, and iwlist but I couldn't figure out how to do...well, anything!
~Shiv

foggymtn · 08-15-2006, 07:26 PM

Well, I'm a noob.... but on my laptop occasionaly I have to enter
"sudo ifdown ath0" ath0 being my wireless connection
"Sudo ifup ath0"

You'll have to forgive me... I'm on xp and I can't pull up any linux box at the moment. We're having a lightning storm and XP is the only expendable system in the house!

shiv_379 · 08-16-2006, 02:20 PM

I tried "sudo ifconfig eth1 down"/"sudo ifconfig eth1 up" and that didn't work. Is that the same as what you posted?
I'll boot back into Linux in a min and give it a go.

I seem to be having problems connecting via wired connection now too :-/

EDIT: No luck there, got an error saying something like the device isn't configured :-/ :-(
Double-EDIT: Can a mod move this to the wireless forum please?
~Shiv

shiv_379 · 08-17-2006, 02:15 PM

These are my network devices from lspci:
[code]0000:01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
0000:01:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)[code]

In an interesting twist I seem to have wired networking under linux again (without actually changing anything) but now my windows doesn't recognise when the cable is in for wired network!!
I think I'm just going to go find some whisky and drink myself into not caring now!

~Shiv

tuxrules · 08-17-2006, 04:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shiv_379

These are my network devices from lspci:
[code]0000:01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
0000:01:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)[code]

In an interesting twist I seem to have wired networking under linux again (without actually changing anything) but now my windows doesn't recognise when the cable is in for wired network!!
I think I'm just going to go find some whisky and drink myself into not caring now!

~Shiv

Well, Linux and Windows are completely separate so there is no way network settings of one could affect the other. Are you sure you did not upgrade your kernel? Have you tried unplugging wired network cable in linux and then booting? I'm saying that because I have the same wireless adapter as yours and whenever I install a new version of the driver, it first recognizes the interface as eth1. When you reboot, it becomes eth0.

-Tux,

shiv_379 · 08-20-2006, 06:18 AM

They always seem to be the same way around.
Just found out something interesting tho, I'm not sure this has happened before. I rebooted from windows to linux, and without any network managers (knetworkmanager or wlassistant) running, I found that I had somehow connected to a wireless connection! Starting either of the GUIs still showed that nothing was connected though!
In my process list NetworkManager and NetworkManagerD are both running.

Suggestions? Sledgehammers?
~Shiv

masonm · 08-20-2006, 06:26 AM

Post the output of dmesg, lsmod, and iwconfig

jschiwal · 08-20-2006, 06:59 AM

Do you use wpa authentication. You might try monitoring it with "wpa_cli -p /var/run/wpa_supplicant -i eth1"

I had a problem with my desktop and an older laptop not authenticating. The laptop happened to work previously. When I replaced the desktop I tried again setting up wireless. I thought that I was on the internet via my hp laptop, and went to the router to copy the key from the router. It turns out that someone was using my essid but without encryption. I thought I got into my own router and it had reset, because it used the default password. I changed the routers password before realizing that it wasn't my router! After changing the essid value of my router, wpa_supplicant worked!
Make sure that you are set up to use the same channel and your essid matches your router. Since "iwlist scan" returns information on the wireless cells, your device is probably working, and it may be a matter of authentication. Your computer needs to authenticate with your router before it can get an address from dhcp.

Code:

          Cell 03 - Address: 00:16:B6:30:CA:81
                    ESSID:"jesnet"                # my old essid
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
                    Quality:0/100  Signal level:-62 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:atim=0
...
          Cell 05 - Address: 00:14:BF:13:0D:9D
                    ESSID:"jes-net"               # My new essid
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                    Mode:Managed

Just to check it out on my older laptop, I changed the essid and my new wpa key value in /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0 and I was back on wireless on that laptop.

shiv_379 · 08-21-2006, 01:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jschiwal

Do you use wpa authentication. You might try monitoring it with "wpa_cli -p /var/run/wpa_supplicant -i eth1"

Tried that and I got: "Could not connect to wpa_supplicant - re-trying"

I have a pretty unique ESSID ("Hobgoblin") and according to net stumbler in windows there are no others in the area with the same ESSID.

I don't know what's changed but I can now connect to my neighbour's unprotected router, however that's the only one I see under Wireless Assistant and I'm still not seeing anything under KNetworkManager (Not trying to run both at the same time mind).

dmesgd:

Code:

[17179569.184000] Linux version 2.6.15-26-386 (buildd@terranova) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1 PREEMPT Thu Aug 3 02:52:00 UTC 2006
[17179569.184000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[17179569.184000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[17179569.184000]  BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003ffd0000 (usable)
[17179569.184000]  BIOS-e820: 000000003ffd0000 - 000000003ffde000 (ACPI data)
[17179569.184000]  BIOS-e820: 000000003ffde000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI NVS)
[17179569.184000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fed13000 - 00000000fed1a000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] 127MB HIGHMEM available.
[17179569.184000] 896MB LOWMEM available.
[17179569.184000] found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
[17179569.184000] On node 0 totalpages: 262096
[17179569.184000]   DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
[17179569.184000]   DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
[17179569.184000]   Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
[17179569.184000]   HighMem zone: 32720 pages, LIFO batch:7
[17179569.184000] DMI 2.3 present.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM                                ) @ 0x000f80d0
[17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 A M I  OEMRSDT  0x07000529 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ffd0000
[17179569.184000] ACPI: FADT (v002 A M I  OEMFACP  0x07000529 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ffd0200
[17179569.184000] ACPI: MADT (v001 A M I  OEMAPIC  0x07000529 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ffd0390
[17179569.184000] ACPI: MCFG (v001 A M I  OEMMCFG  0x07000529 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ffd03f0
[17179569.184000] ACPI: OEMB (v001 A M I  AMI_OEM  0x07000529 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ffde040
[17179569.184000] ACPI: MCFG (v001 A M I  OEMMCFG  0x07000529 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ffd4e60
[17179569.184000] ACPI: SSDT (v001    AMI   CPU1PM 0x00000001 INTL 0x02002026) @ 0x3ffd4ea0
[17179569.184000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 UW____ F18_____ 0x00000001 INTL 0x02002026) @ 0x00000000
[17179569.184000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
[17179569.184000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[17179569.184000] Processor #0 6:13 APIC version 20
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[17179569.184000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
[17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
[17179569.184000] Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
[17179569.184000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[17179569.184000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:bed13000)
[17179569.184000] Built 1 zonelists
[17179569.184000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda2 ro quiet
[17179569.184000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
[17179569.184000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
[17179569.184000] Initializing CPU#0
[17179569.184000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
[17179569.184000] Detected 2000.391 MHz processor.
[17179569.184000] Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
[17179569.184000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[17179573.336000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[17179573.336000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[17179573.360000] Memory: 1028704k/1048384k available (1976k kernel code, 18932k reserved, 606k data, 288k init, 130880k highmem)
[17179573.360000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[17179573.440000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4004.36 BogoMIPS (lpj=8008735)
[17179573.440000] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[17179573.440000] SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
[17179573.440000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[17179573.440000] CPU: After generic identify, caps: afe9fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000180 00000000 00000000
[17179573.440000] CPU: After vendor identify, caps: afe9fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000180 00000000 00000000
[17179573.440000] CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
[17179573.440000] CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
[17179573.440000] CPU: After all inits, caps: afe9fbff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000180 00000000 00000000
[17179573.440000] mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
[17179573.440000] CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz stepping 08
[17179573.440000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[17179573.440000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[17179573.440000] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[17179573.456000] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[17179573.976000] Freeing initrd memory: 6615k freed
[17179573.980000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found!
[17179573.980000] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[17179573.980000] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[17179574.124000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[17179574.124000] EISA bus registered
[17179574.124000] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[17179574.124000] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=3
[17179574.124000] ACPI: 2 duplicate MCFG table ignored.
[17179574.124000] PCI: Using MMCONFIG
[17179574.124000] ACPI: Subsystem revision 20051216
[17179574.124000] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[17179574.124000] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[17179574.148000] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[17179574.148000] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[17179574.148000] PCI quirk: region 0800-087f claimed by ICH6 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
[17179574.148000] PCI quirk: region 0480-04bf claimed by ICH6 GPIO
[17179574.148000] PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
[17179574.148000] Boot video device is 0000:03:00.0
[17179574.148000] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
[17179574.148000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[17179574.700000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P1._PRT]
[17179574.700000] ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 24) interrupt mode.
[17179574.752000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P3._PRT]
[17179574.752000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
[17179574.752000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
[17179574.752000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
[17179574.752000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
[17179574.752000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[17179574.752000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[17179574.752000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[17179574.752000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
[17179574.752000] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[17179574.752000] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[17179574.760000] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
[17179574.760000] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[17179574.760000] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[17179574.760000] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
[17179574.760000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:1e.0
[17179574.760000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:01:07.0
[17179574.760000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device 0000:01:07.0
[17179574.760000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 2 of device 0000:01:07.0
[17179574.760000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 3 of device 0000:01:07.0
[17179574.760000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 0000:01:07.0
[17179574.760000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 5 of device 0000:01:07.0
[17179574.772000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
[17179574.772000]   IO window: disabled.
[17179574.772000]   MEM window: faa00000-feafffff
[17179574.772000]   PREFETCH window: bfe00000-dfefffff
[17179574.772000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0
[17179574.772000]   IO window: d000-dfff
[17179574.772000]   MEM window: bfc00000-bfcfffff
[17179574.772000]   PREFETCH window: bfd00000-bfdfffff
[17179574.772000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
[17179574.772000]   IO window: 1000-1fff
[17179574.772000]   MEM window: fa900000-fa9fffff
[17179574.772000]   PREFETCH window: 50000000-500fffff
[17179574.772000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179574.772000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
[17179574.772000] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1c.0 (0106 -> 0107)
[17179574.772000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179574.772000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
[17179574.772000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
[17179574.772000] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[17179574.772000] audit(1156184773.772:1): initialized
[17179574.772000] highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
[17179574.772000] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[17179574.772000] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[17179574.772000] Initializing Cryptographic API
[17179574.772000] io scheduler noop registered
[17179574.772000] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[17179574.772000] io scheduler deadline registered
[17179574.772000] io scheduler cfq registered
[17179574.788000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179574.788000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
[17179574.788000] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
[17179574.788000] Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
[17179574.788000] Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
[17179574.788000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179574.788000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
[17179574.788000] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
[17179574.788000] Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
[17179574.788000] Allocate Port Service[pcie02]
[17179574.788000] Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
[17179574.788000] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[17179575.140000] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[17179575.152000] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[17179575.156000] i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.0.
[17179575.156000] serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[17179575.156000] serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[17179575.156000] serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[17179575.156000] serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[17179575.156000] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[17179575.156000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[17179575.160000] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[17179575.160000] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[17179575.160000] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[17179575.160000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[17179575.160000] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[17179575.160000] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
[17179575.160000] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[17179575.160000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[17179575.168000] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
[17179575.204000] IP route cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[17179575.204000] TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[17179575.204000] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[17179575.204000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
[17179575.204000] TCP reno registered
[17179575.204000] TCP bic registered
[17179575.204000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[17179575.204000] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[17179575.204000] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[17179575.204000] Using IPI Shortcut mode
[17179575.204000] ACPI wakeup devices: 
[17179575.204000] P0P1  LAN  AZC P0P5 P0P6 P0P7 P0P3 P0P2 
[17179575.204000] ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
[17179575.204000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 288k freed
[17179575.240000] Capability LSM initialized
[17179575.264000] ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
[17179575.264000] ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
[17179575.268000] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (31 C)
[17179575.512000] SCSI subsystem initialized
[17179575.512000] ACPI: bus type scsi registered
[17179575.512000] libata version 1.20 loaded.
[17179575.512000] sata_via 0000:01:07.0: version 1.1
[17179575.512000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:07.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179575.512000] sata_via 0000:01:07.0: routed to hard irq line 10
[17179575.512000] ata1: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1420 ctl 0x142A bmdma 0x1400 irq 169
[17179575.512000] ata2: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1430 ctl 0x143A bmdma 0x1408 irq 169
[17179575.512000] ata3: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1440 ctl 0x144A bmdma 0x1410 irq 169
[17179576.756000] ata1: dev 0 cfg 00:045a 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7f09 84:6063 85:3469 86:3e09 87:6063 88:203f 93:0000
[17179576.756000] ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/100, 156301488 sectors: LBA48
[17179576.756000] sata_get_dev_handle: SATA dev addr=0x70000, handle=0xdf96fe40
[17179576.848000] ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
[17179576.848000] sata_get_dev_handle: SATA dev addr=0x70000, handle=0xdf96fe40
[17179576.952000] scsi0 : sata_via
[17179578.192000] ata2: disabling port
[17179578.192000] scsi1 : sata_via
[17179579.484000] ata3: disabling port
[17179579.484000] scsi2 : sata_via
[17179579.484000]   Vendor: ATA       Model: FUJITSU MHT2080B  Rev: 0000
[17179579.484000]   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
[17179579.488000] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[17179579.488000] SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
[17179579.488000] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
[17179579.492000] SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
[17179579.492000] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
[17179579.492000]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 < sda5 > sda4
[17179579.564000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
[17179580.384000] ICH6: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
[17179580.384000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
[17179580.384000] ICH6: chipset revision 4
[17179580.384000] ICH6: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[17179580.384000]     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
[17179580.384000]     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
[17179580.384000] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[17179581.120000] hda: HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GWA-4082N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[17179581.456000] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[17179581.472000] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[17179582.044000] hda: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
[17179582.044000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[17179582.112000] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
[17179582.112000] usbcore: registered new driver hub
[17179582.112000] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
[17179582.112000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
[17179582.112000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
[17179582.112000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
[17179582.112000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[17179582.112000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 209, io base 0x0000e480
[17179582.112000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179582.112000] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179582.152000] ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
[17179582.216000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 217
[17179582.216000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
[17179582.216000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
[17179582.216000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[17179582.216000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 217, io base 0x0000e800
[17179582.216000] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179582.216000] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179582.320000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
[17179582.320000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
[17179582.320000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
[17179582.320000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[17179582.320000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 201, io base 0x0000e880
[17179582.320000] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179582.320000] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179582.424000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[D] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179582.424000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
[17179582.424000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
[17179582.424000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[17179582.424000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 169, io base 0x0000ec00
[17179582.424000] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179582.424000] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179582.528000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
[17179582.528000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
[17179582.528000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
[17179582.528000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
[17179582.528000] PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
[17179582.528000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
[17179582.528000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 209, io mem 0xfebffc00
[17179582.532000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[17179582.532000] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179582.532000] hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
[17179582.636000] ohci1394: $Rev: 1313 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
[17179582.636000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:04.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
[17179582.684000] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[201]  MMIO=[fa9ff000-fa9ff7ff]  Max Packet=[2048]
[17179582.704000] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[17179583.380000] Attempting manual resume
[17179583.396000] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[17179583.396000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[17179583.956000] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[00030d4971e23d91]
[17179592.656000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[17179593.484000] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[17179593.556000] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[17179593.600000] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[17179593.632000] agpgart: Detected an Intel 915GM Chipset.
[17179593.648000] agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0x0
[17179593.752000] hw_random: RNG not detected
[17179593.804000] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[17179593.804000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179593.804000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
[17179593.804000] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module  1.0-8762  Mon May 15 13:06:38 PDT 2006
[17179594.520000] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.9, id: 0x6eb1, caps: 0xa04711/0x40a
[17179594.560000] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1
[17179594.580000] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
[17179594.588000] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
[17179594.776000] ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
[17179594.876000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179594.876000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
[17179594.944000] ieee80211_1_1_13_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
[17179595.000000] ieee80211_1_1_13: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.1.13
[17179595.000000] ieee80211_1_1_13: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
[17179595.024000] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
[17179595.052000] ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7
[17179595.052000] ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
[17179595.128000] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.1
[17179595.128000] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[17179595.128000] Warning: PCI driver ipw2200 has a struct device_driver shutdown method, please update!
[17179595.684000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:03.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 217
[17179595.684000] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[17179595.912000] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZR (14 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
[17179595.912000] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK loaded
[17179595.912000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 217
[17179595.912000] eth1: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
[17179595.912000] eth1: RTL8169 at 0xf8a60c00, 00:03:0d:34:dd:d8, IRQ 217
[17179596.032000] r8169: eth0: link down
[17179596.108000] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[17179596.136000] sbp2: $Rev: 1306 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
[17179596.136000] ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
[17179596.136000] ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
[17179596.184000] Adding 626492k swap on /dev/sda5.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:626492k
[17179596.212000] EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal
[17179596.328000] md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
[17179596.328000] md: bitmap version 4.39
[17179596.680000] device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
[17179597.184000] cdrom: open failed.
[17179597.280000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[17179597.668000] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
[17179602.948000] ACPI: AC Adapter [AC0] (off-line)
[17179603.016000] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
[17179603.084000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[17179603.084000] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
[17179603.084000] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
[17179603.084000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[17179603.236000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
[17179603.264000] pcc_acpi: loading...
[17179603.292000] wmi_add device=dfe74000
[17179603.292000] calling WQBA
[17179603.332000] ACPI: Video Device [PEG] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
[17179604.068000] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[17179604.068000] apm: overridden by ACPI.
[17179676.768000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[17179676.768000] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[17179676.768000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[17179676.768000] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[17179687.480000] eth1: no IPv6 routers present

iwconfig:

Code:

eth1      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"NETGEAR"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:0F:B5:B4:25:6E   
          Bit Rate=5.5 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=8/0  
          Retry limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=37/100  Signal level=-78 dBm  Noise level=-84 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:27

I have to admit I have no idea what those commands do! Only iwconfig to some very limited extent.
Hope these outputs make some sense?
~Shiv

shiv_379 · 08-21-2006, 01:01 PM

lsmod:

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  265728  6 
speedstep_centrino      8400  1 
cpufreq_userspace       4696  1 
cpufreq_stats           5636  0 
freq_table              4740  2 speedstep_centrino,cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_powersave       1920  0 
cpufreq_ondemand        6428  0 
cpufreq_conservative     7332  0 
video                  16260  0 
tc1100_wmi              6916  0 
sony_acpi               5644  0 
pcc_acpi               12416  0 
hotkey                 11556  0 
dev_acpi               11140  0 
container               4608  0 
button                  6672  0 
acpi_sbs               19980  0 
battery                 9988  1 acpi_sbs
ac                      5252  1 acpi_sbs
i2c_acpi_ec             5120  1 acpi_sbs
nls_utf8                2176  1 
nls_cp437               5888  1 
vfat                   13440  1 
fat                    53020  1 vfat
af_packet              22920  4 
dm_mod                 58936  1 
md_mod                 72532  0 
sr_mod                 16932  0 
sbp2                   24196  0 
parport_pc             35780  0 
lp                     11844  0 
parport                36296  2 parport_pc,lp
r1000                  16000  0 
r8169                  28808  0 
ipw2200               107308  0 
ieee80211              37064  1 ipw2200
ieee80211_crypt         6272  1 ieee80211
ieee80211_1_1_13       38216  0 
ieee80211_1_1_13_crypt     6784  1 ieee80211_1_1_13
snd_hda_intel          18964  1 
snd_hda_codec         154672  1 snd_hda_intel
joydev                 10048  0 
tsdev                   8000  0 
pcspkr                  2180  0 
rtc                    13492  1 
snd_pcm_oss            53664  0 
snd_mixer_oss          18688  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                89864  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              25220  1 snd_pcm
snd                    55268  6 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
psmouse                36100  0 
nvidia               4550772  12 
i2c_core               21904  2 i2c_acpi_ec,nvidia
serio_raw               7300  0 
soundcore              10208  2 snd
intel_agp              22940  1 
snd_page_alloc         10632  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
shpchp                 45632  0 
pci_hotplug            29236  1 shpchp
agpgart                34888  2 nvidia,intel_agp
sg                     37920  0 
evdev                   9856  2 
ext3                  135688  1 
jbd                    58772  1 ext3
ide_generic             1536  0 
ohci1394               35124  0 
ieee1394              299832  2 sbp2,ohci1394
ehci_hcd               34184  0 
uhci_hcd               33680  0 
usbcore               130692  3 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
ide_cd                 33028  0 
cdrom                  38560  2 sr_mod,ide_cd
piix                   11012  1 
generic                 5124  0 
sd_mod                 19984  4 
sata_via               10116  7 
libata                 78992  1 sata_via
scsi_mod              139496  5 sr_mod,sbp2,sg,sd_mod,libata
thermal                13576  0 
processor              23360  2 speedstep_centrino,thermal
fan                     4868  0 
fbcon                  42784  0 
tileblit                2816  1 fbcon
font                    8320  1 fbcon
bitblit                 6272  1 fbcon
softcursor              2304  1 bitblit
capability              5000  0 
commoncap               7296  1 capability

~Shiv

jschiwal · 08-22-2006, 12:15 AM

I don't think that wpa_supplicant is even running. Either that or your system has a different place where wpa_supplicant puts its working config and socket file. Try looking at:

Code:

jschiwal@hpamd64:~> ps -u root | grep wpa
 5867 ?        00:00:00 wpa_supplicant

jschiwal@hpamd64:~> sudo lsof | grep wpa_supplicant
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() cifs file system /mnt/hpmedia/jschiwal
      Output information may be incomplete.
wpa_suppl  5867       root  txt       REG                3,6     289768      76520 /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant
wpa_suppl  5867       root    6u     unix 0xffff81004a113080                 21427 /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0

On my system, wpa_supplicant is started dynamically from a script using the variable values from the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0 file. However, on your system it may read /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. The /etc/wpa_supplicant file may indicate what you should use for the path variable in wpa_cli. Look for the value of ctrl_interface:

Code:

jschiwal@hpamd64:~> sudo cat /var/run/wpa_supplicant-wlan0.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
  scan_ssid=1
  ssid="jes-net"
  key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
  psk=ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
}

So since my interface is called "wlan0" and my ctrl_interface is /var/run/wpa_supplicant, I would use the command:
sudo wpa_cli -p /var/run/wpa_supplicant -i wlan0

Also note that it is run a root. Also, I hid the true value of the 32 byte psk value in my example.

I generate my psk like this:

Code:

hpamd64:~ # dd if=/dev/random of=~/newkey bs=1 count=32
32+0 records in
32+0 records out
32 bytes (32 B) copied, 0.000929 seconds, 34.4 kB/s
hpamd64:~ # od -t x1 ~/newkey | sed -e '3d' -e 's/^.\{7\}//' -e 's/ //g' | tr -d '\n'; echo
71ec924439f8f31fd4d0881721cc7b998437e3a8aeb29532017f0fe827a8c0de

This generates a new random 32 byte (64 hex digit) key that I copy to a usb stick and use for all of my computers.
I also paste it into my routers setup using the web interface.

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Make sure that that wireless device is still working. As root, run:
iwlist <interface name> scan

So I would run "iwlist wlan0 scan". This will tell me if the wlan0 device is working. If you don't see any cells listed your device might not be working. If you don't see your routers cell, try power cycling it or adjust your antennae or location a bit. ( doesn't antenna have a strange plural form!! I'm surprised that I spelt it correctly right away, I needed to correct the spelling of surprised before posting. )