| rickenbacherus |
04-10-2004 01:23 PM |
Wireless card connecting to wrong ap (I think)
My network is "cromagnonet". I presume the other 2 are windows users. :)
Code:
iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:0D:88:1E:A1:28
ESSID:"HOME"
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.412GHz
Quality:0/70 Signal level:-82 dBm Noise level:-90 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rate:1Mb/s
Bit Rate:2Mb/s
Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
Bit Rate:11Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:resp_rate=10
Cell 02 - Address: 00:0F:66:00:7E:54
ESSID:"cromagnonet"
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.437GHz
Quality:0/70 Signal level:-37 dBm Noise level:-91 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rate:1Mb/s
Bit Rate:2Mb/s
Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
Bit Rate:11Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:resp_rate=10
Cell 03 - Address: 00:30:AB:1E:11:AC
ESSID:"Janet Wireless"
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.437GHz
Quality:0/70 Signal level:-78 dBm Noise level:-91 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rate:1Mb/s
Bit Rate:2Mb/s
Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
Bit Rate:11Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:resp_rate=20
I have two systems w/ dwl-520e pci cards. The drivers build and load fine and the firmware uploads to the cards properly.
Asus box:
Code:
dhclient wlan0
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:0d:88:50:8d:9e
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:0d:88:50:8d:9e
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
bound to 192.168.1.105 -- renewal in 42801 seconds.
Code:
iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"cromagnonet"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:0F:66:00:7E:54
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:39/70 Signal level:-48 dBm Noise level:-88 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:169 Invalid misc:158024 Missed beacon:0
On the Compaq machine:
Code:
dhclient wlan0
wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:0d:88:4b:df:69
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:0d:88:4b:df:69
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database.
Sleeping.
The Compaq box seems to be trying the wrong ap.
Compaq box:
Code:
iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"cromagnonet"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.467GHz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44
Bit Rate=2Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:123-456-789-abc-def Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0/70 Signal level:-73 dBm Noise level:-73 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:42 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:113 Invalid misc:868 Missed beacon:0
I try
Code:
iwconfig wlan0 ap 00:0F:66:00:7E:54
I get no errors but the ap doesn't change. It's still at 44:44:44:44:44:44
Am I doing it wrong?
Additionally I can't change the rate w/ iwconfig.
Code:
iwconfig wlan0 rate 11M
The Compaq wireless card IS working- I can do iwlist scanning with it but I just can't get an i.p. I hope this makes sense and that someone can tell me what it is I'm doing wrong. |
