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Linux Mint XFCE Wireless Issue

OK so I have recently installed Daryna XFCE and my proper bcm43xx drivers and the wifi is definitely working, I can see my network and all others in my area. The only problem is that I for some reason cannot connect to my WEP encrypted home network. When I try it hangs on 'obtaining IP address'. After some fruitless searching someone told me that I have my 'Roaming' turned off. have searched in all the menus and preferences that I can think of to get it turned back on and haven't seen that option anywhere. If this is really my problem can someone please explain to me how to enable it , and if it isn't then maybe explain what else to do. Thanks in advance.

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I think we'll need a few more details before any conclusions can be drawn:

- How are you setting the WEP key?
- How are you trying to get an IP address?
- What is the output of iwconfig?
- What is the output of ifconfig?
- Can you connect to your home network if WEP is temporarily turned off?

Quote:

After some fruitless searching someone told me that I have my 'Roaming' turned off.

With all due respect, "someone" probably is a touch out to lunch.

iwconfig output:

Code:

lo        no wireless extensions.



eth0      no wireless extensions.



wlan0    IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any  

          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated  

          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s  Tx-Power:32 dBm  

          RTS thr:2347 B  Fragment thr:2346 B  

          Power Management:off

          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

ifconfig output:

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1B:24:57:18:A5  

          inet addr:192.168.1.101  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:1627 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:1497 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

          RX bytes:1309967 (1.2 MB)  TX bytes:246673 (240.8 KB)

          Interrupt:19 Base address:0x2000 



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:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

          RX bytes:200 (200.0 b)  TX bytes:200 (200.0 b)



wlan0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1A:73:6E:CA:13  

          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:22 Memory:b8000000-b8004000 



wlan0:ava Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1A:73:6E:CA:13  

          inet addr:169.254.5.210  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0

          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          Interrupt:22 Memory:b8000000-b8004000

Linux Mint uses WiCD to manage the wireless connections and when I enter the WEP key (yes i chose the correct WEP entery, HEX) and it hangs during the connection while saying 'obtaining IP address'. Also I tryed to connect to another open network in my area with the same results.

From your iwconfig output, it looks as if the configuration via WiCD hasn't taken. Try doing it from the command:

iwconfig wlan0 essid YourSSID
iwconfig wlan0 key YourWEPKeyInHex
ifup wlan0

Hopefully that will show if you can connect or not.

Output after all that is:

Code:

ifup: interface wlan0 already configured

Still can't connect

Can you tell from the output of iwconfig if the configuration actually took? Also, can you see an IP address in the output of ifconfig after you've run ifup?