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Old 12-19-2005, 10:33 PM   #1
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Exclamation Intel Pro Wireless 2200bg


It's been about 3 weeks now that I have been trying to configure my Intel Pro Wireless 2200bg card to connect to a local WPA encrypted network. I was able to connect using SuSE 9.3 with very little effort. However I recently switched because I could not get used to SuSE....I had too many problems installing software. I am running kernel 2.6.14.4, I installed the following packages from sourceforge with no errors:

ipw2200
ieee80211
ipw2200-firmware
wireless-tools

I get the following when entering dmesg | grep ipw2200 in my terminal.

ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.8
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection

when I type iwconfig, I get the following:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 unassociated ESSID:"nttmil"
Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
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

eth2 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

I get no signal, I turned the radio on with Fn+F2, still no luck. I know the network is up because I can connect to it with Windows. It seems as though I'm just not picking up a signal. Any ideas?
 
Old 12-20-2005, 02:51 PM   #2
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Can you connect if it's set to no encryption, or WEP?
 
Old 12-20-2005, 10:00 PM   #3
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I installed wifi-radar. It turns out I am getting a signal, finally a good sign. The network I need to connect to requires a WPA encrytion key which I have. I think the problem is that iwconfig does not support WPA....at least that is what the man page says. I don't understand since I was able to connect using SuSE 9.3 with the wireless-tools. Am I missing something? I have searched and found something about a wpa_supplicant, is this something I need?
 
Old 12-21-2005, 03:43 AM   #4
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It's what I'm using right now. Google "wpa_supplicant" for their site -- it's pretty comprehensive
 
  


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