No IP address with wireless networking in Suse 9.3

[42]Sanf0rd · 04-27-2005, 02:24 AM

Hey guys, been a LONG time since I've asked for help here, but I'm pulling my hair out trying to get online with my wireless system.

Here's the details:

OS - Suse 9.3 Pro
Wireless NIC - Netgear 802.11b/g
Router - Linksys WRT54G

YaST detected my card just fine. Under "Network Card Configuration", it shows it as a "Netgear ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface Configured with DHCP", which is the correct card and chipset.

At first, I wasn't able to get ANYTHING with it, and the Network Connections button (in GNOME) was showing Wireless was disabled. So I used YOU (YaST Online Updater) to get the latest firmware for the ACX 111 chipset, and then it was able to see my network, and show a great signal strength.

I've used the "Network Card Configuration" tool in YAST to set the WEP key, the ESSID, etc, and even set the Default Gateway to 192.168.1.1, just as it is set on the Linksys router.

When I try to use the Network Connections tool in GNOME and manually connect to the wireless connection (wlan0), it shows it as active, but under "Connection Information", I get no IP address, even though I have used every tool I can find to tell it to use DHCP, and as I've shown before, it says it IS in fact configured with DHCP.

When I run ifconfig, here's what I get:

Code:

eth0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:EA:41:B1:41
            inet6 addr: fe80::20f:eaff:fe41:b141/64 Scope:Link
            UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
            RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:11080 (10.8 Kb)
            Interrupt: 11 Base address:0xe000

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: 251 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets: 251 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
            RX bytes:18340 (17.9 Kb)  TX bytes:18340 (17.9 Kb)

wlan0   Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:B5:4C:96:42
            inet6 addr: fe80::20f:b5ff:fe4c:9642/64 Scope:Link
            UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST  MTU:1500 Metric:1
            RX packets 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 Kb)
            Interrupt: 10

when I try running dhcpcd wlan0, I get the following output:

Code:

/sbin/modify_resolvconf: line 245: /etc/init.d/lwresd: No such file or directory

here's my output from iwconfig

Code:

lo         no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

eth0    no wireless extensions.

wlan0  IEEE 802.11b+/g+  ESSID:"deeznutz"  Nickname:"linux"
           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
           bit Rate:1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15dBm  Sensitivity=1/3
           Rety min limit:7  RTS thr:off
           Encryption key:[edited for privacy]  Security mode:restricted
           Power Management:off
           Link Quality 53/100  Signal level:35/100  Noise level:0/100
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0  Missed beacon:0

I know the card works, because it's a dual boot system, and Windows runs it fine... so I know it's not a hardware problem.

Again, SUSE knows exactly what kind of card I have, the card itself has the newest firmware (that was provided by SUSE's online updating program), and it is configured with DHCP. I just can't get an IP address to save my life.

Any ideas

STuPiDiCuS · 04-27-2005, 04:05 AM

IPV6, right there in the ifconfig output. switch it to IPV4 and it should work ok, since that's the only diff I can see from what you've said and what XP should use by default.
let me know. If nothing else look at my post once you've got the wireless card up and going, since for some reason the wireless setup in 9.3 is *AHEM* ...different from 9.2. I know exactly how you feel about the change.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=316969

Oh one more: your iwconfig output shows me your AP MAC isn't showing up/isn't configured. enter that in yast, and it may help.

BTW: my wireless is working fine without netapplet, the "gnome network selector" I think you referred to. That seems to be the consensus. It works great when you've got profiles enabled though, because netapplet seems to want a connection before it'll scan on its own, at least on my laptop.

YMMV.

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even though I have used every tool I can find

I think disabling/enabling IPV6 is a KDE thing, you can read about how to do it in the release notes. It's not in ANY of the tools I've used that come with SuSE. (yast, netapplet, kinternet...)
That may be why you've never found it, so cheer up.