can't connect to wireless router with F7
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at mindspring.com
Wed Jun 20 14:34:56 UTC 2007
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, John DeDourek wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > the scenario:
> >
> > * linksys WRT45GL (WAP with 4 wired ports)
> > * dell inspiron 9200 with linksys pcmcia card
> >
> > i've used this pcmcia card successfully with linksys routers for a
> > long time, and i just installed one of the above routers in the home
> > of a friend. both of their windows systems (vista and XP) connected
> > flawlessly, but now my inspiron can't connect.
> >
> > previously, under FC6, in this situation, i would go into the
> > network administration dialog, delete the wired entry and create a new
> > wireless entry, which would also be labelled as "eth0". never had a
> > problem, at least under FC6.
> >
> > now, with F7, trying this for the first time, i get these new
> > interface entries:
> >
> > # iwconfig
> > lo no wireless extensions.
> >
> > wifi0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"porthos"
> > Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
> > Mode:Master Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:06:25:0B:84:25
> > Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
> > Retry limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> > Encryption key:xxxxxxxxxx Security mode:restricted
> > Power Management:off
> >
> > wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"porthos" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
> > Mode:Master Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:06:25:0B:84:25
> > Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
> > Retry limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> > Encryption key:xxxxxxxxxx Security mode:restricted
> > Power Management:off
> > Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
> > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:11306 Rx invalid frag:0
> > Tx excessive retries:24 Invalid misc:51846 Missed beacon:0
> >
> > sit0 no wireless extensions.
> >
> >
> > # ifconfig
> > 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:3292 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > TX packets:3292 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> > RX bytes:18159745 (17.3 MiB) TX bytes:18159745 (17.3 MiB)
> >
> > wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
> > 00-06-25-0B-84-25-08-DF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
> > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> > RX packets:289538 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > TX packets:1025 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> > RX bytes:7111118 (6.7 MiB) TX bytes:207248 (202.3 KiB)
> > Interrupt:3 Base address:0xe100
> >
> > wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:25:0B:84:25
> > inet6 addr: fe80::206:25ff:fe0b:8425/64 Scope:Link
> > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> > RX packets:940 errors:0 dropped:288569 overruns:0 frame:0
> > TX packets:981 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> > RX bytes:167658 (163.7 KiB) TX bytes:198076 (193.4 KiB)
> > Interrupt:3 Base address:0xe100
> >
> > and any attempt to run "service network start" just hangs.
> >
> > is there a new incantation i need for this to work under F7?
> > thanks.
> >
> > rday
> >
> > p.s. the WRT54GL is specifically listed as a wireless "G", but it's
> > been configured to auto-select the speed. i'm assuming it's not
> > something as simple as a speed mismatch.
> >
>
> It looks to me like you are using the "madwifi" driver. Is
> that correct?
um ... i'm not sure. there's certainly no module loaded with that
name. i'm working with a stock F7 system, on which i haven't loaded
any extra networking functionality, and my current setup worked great
under FC6 on this same system.
> If you're not sure, I can suggest some ways to check. If you're
> using some other WLAN driver, the following is not applicable.
>
> Are you using WEP or WPA for the security mode?
WEP, which worked fine until now.
rday
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