A Montieths Black for the man! Thanks Steve!
Case closed,
Andy
- thanks for the warning on WEP Craig, I'll address it with them.
Steve Holdoway wrote:
iwconfig wlan0 channel x essid xxxxx mode managed key xxxxxxxxxx
where all the 'x' need replacing by the real data from your ap. The simplest
one to get up and running is if your ap is in open/wep mode. If you're using a
5 character key instead of 10 hex, prefix it with s:
Steve
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:40:04 +1300
Andy Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
it's a DSE 802.11g PCI XH8343
iwconfig:
lo - no wireless extensions found
eth0- no wireless extensions found
wlan0 - 802.11b/g Mode: managed
Frequency 2.417GHz
Access Point: not associated
Bit Rate: 11Mb/s
Retry: on Fragment thr:off
Power management: off
Link Quality: 0 Signal Level: 0 ( all the rest are also zero )
ifconfig
lo - is this needed?
wlan0 -
Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:44:B7:B8:A8
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric: 1
TX packets: 1 errors:3173 dropped: 352 overruns:0 carrier: 0
collsisions: 0 tx queuelen:1000
RX bytes: 71 (71.0 b) TXbytes:385812 (376.7KiB)
Interrupts:58 Memory f889a000-f889a100
The network person tells me that WEP is all there is. I'm trying to
connect to a NetComm Super-G Wireless Firewall Router if that helps.
dmesg and lspci gave me a _lot_ of output, I'm transcribing the output
from one PC to another - can you give me an idea of what I'm looking for?
Cheers,
Andy
Craig FALCONER wrote:
So you have a machine with a wireless NIC that doesn't connect...
Please provide more info:
Output of lspci
Output of dmesg
What chipset NIC is it?
Output of iwconfig and ifconfig
And talk to the network people and ask for the WPA key and details. Its
unlikely to be just WEP.
BTW WPA also requires wpasupplicant to be running, to handle the background
key changes.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Leach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 16 October 2006 10:19 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Linux in a M$ DHCP world
I set up the work one today, which was just as trivial to do up to
one
point. The network is wireless and, while the card is recognised, I
can't access anything on the lan, I can't ping anything local or remote
either. I have the WEP(?) Key entered and DHCP selected but nothing is
happening. Google's not giving me much, apart from disabling eth0 -
which I'll try tomorrow.
