Wireless problems.

[Mark Haney]

Mike wrote:
> Mark Haney <mhaney <at> ercbroadband.org> writes:
> 
> Yes but how are you trying to connect?
> 
> Do you have a simple /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0?
> Do you have onboot=yes in this file?
> Then are you doing ifup wlan0 to try and connect if it is not running at
> boot time?
> 
> Or do you have wpa_supplicant for an open connection? You can use
> wpa_supplicant to make a simple connection with no encryption.
> 
> What is the output of ifconfig as root? 
> What is the output of iwconfig as root once connected.
> 
> Is dhclient running after you boot up?
> Do you set a fixed ip address in the ifcfg-xxx file?
> 
> I think if you send some of this information people can offer some
> advice...
> 

I totally misunderstood your question, I'm sorry about that.  I connect 
via a simple ifcfg-xx file.  I don't use NM for anything.  I don't have 
dhclient running since I gave it a static IP.  That's not ever been a 
problem before, it's been a static IP since I put the card in the box a 
half year ago.

Here's the output you asked for:

[root at sulla ~]# 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:3834 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:3834 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:217134 (212.0 KiB)  TX bytes:217134 (212.0 KiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1E:E5:20:BF:BA
           inet addr:192.168.2.3  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:179 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:1275 (1.2 KiB)  TX bytes:25462 (24.8 KiB)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
00-1E-E5-20-BF-BA-28-D5-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX 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 b)


[root at sulla ~]# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"EsSID"
           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 
00:11:50:54:0E:C7
           Tx-Power=14 dBm
           Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B
           Encryption key:off
           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

sit0      no wireless extensions.


I can tell from iwconfig that it looks to be not getting a signal, but I 
  know the signal strength has always been good at this location, and my 
XP boot on this system (I know, but it's only for games and testing 
windows apps) that signal strength is perfect on it.  The AP is only 
about 15 ft from the system.

Does this help?



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Mark Haney
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ERC Broadband
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