Hi community, i am having some problems when i want my wlan to work...
I have installes a wireless card on ma slack 10.2 server, and i want it to connect to my netgear wireless router, but after lots of attempts, i keep on failng....
At the beggining i tryed t do it with a static ip and a WEP key, but didnt work, so i tred an easier way, by dhcp and without a key. But this is what i get:
root@GRANDJEAN:~# iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID
ff/any
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.412GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:54Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=-109 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key
ff
Power Management
ff
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
root@GRANDJEAN:~# iwconfig wlan0 essid "GRANDJEAN"
root@GRANDJEAN:~# iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"GRANDJEAN"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:90:4C:7E:00:10
Bit Rate:24Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=-109 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key
ff
Power Management
ff
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
root@GRANDJEAN:~# ifconfig wlan0 up
root@GRANDJEAN:~# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:90:4C:7E:00:10
ESSID:""
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462GHz
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-11 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption key
ff
Bit Rate:1Mb/s
Bit Rate:2Mb/s
Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
Bit Rate:11Mb/s
Bit Rate:18Mb/s
Bit Rate:24Mb/s
Bit Rate:36Mb/s
Bit Rate:54Mb/s
Bit Rate:6Mb/s
Bit Rate:9Mb/s
Bit Rate:12Mb/s
Bit Rate:48Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
As u may notice, the access point adress, is the same one whrn i scan and in iwonfig, so it should work., but then:
root@GRANDJEAN:~# dhclient wlan0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit
http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
wlan0: not found
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exiting.
My router is configured as to dhcp, so i dont know why is that it aint working.
More info, When my router is not as dhcp, dhcpclient wla0 seems to work, it looks for ip, but, ofcourse, i cant find any.
I have read that if i enter de essid an the key, and then i check it by iwconfig, and i can see that de router mac addr and the one that iwconfig shows r the same, it must work by typing dhcpclient, but it does not!!!!!
Dont know what else to do.
