argh -- can't get wireless in someone else's house
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Fri Feb 8 20:04:44 UTC 2008
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 01:19:29PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, John W. Linville wrote:
> >
> > > I'd have to see more of /var/log/messages, as well as iwconfig output.
> >
> > # iwconfig
> > lo no wireless extensions.
> >
> > eth0 no wireless extensions.
> >
> > wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
> >
> > wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"xxxxxxx"
> > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
> > Tx-Power=27 dBm
> > Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
> > Encryption key:3431-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx
> > 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
>
> Presuming the key is correct, you might try an additional "iwconfig
> wlan0 essid xxxxxxx" (where xxxxxxx is changed appropriatedly) to
> trigger a new association attempt. Sometimes multiple tries are
> necessary, YMMV.
ok, i'll give that a shot.
> > where the ESSID is correct and the key is the ASCII representation of
> > the 10-digit WEP key, which is precisely what can be read from the
> > linksys wireless security page.
>
> That looks longer than 10-digits to me...? Anyway, please re-check
> the WEP key just to be sure. You might also ensure that the key is
> configured as a hex value at the router, and not as a passphrase.
> Just because it looks like hex doesn't mean it is being treated
> that way.
i thought it looked curious as well, but it's apparently just the
"ASCII" rep of the actual 10-digit numeric WEP key:
'34' = 4
'31' = 1
which are the first 2 digits of the WEP key. is iwconfig *supposed*
to print the WEP key that way?
more later.
rday
p.s. when you run system-config-network, the dialog screen to enter
the WEP key states to use a prefix of "0x" to designate hex, but i
tried it both ways and the output from iwconfig is the same either
way. go figure.
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