On June 25, 2005 16:32, Teilhard Knight wrote: > From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 11:19 PM > Subject: Re: [newbie] mdkcustom missing > ... > >> I followed your advise and turned encryption off. I was able to connect > >> all right then. Problem is my laptop ceases receiving and the connection > >> is cut for it. Maybe it would not be difficult to configure the laptop > >> to work with encryption off, but as a first approach I turned encryption > >> on again. I agree with what you say about a hacker breaking in and the > >> rest, but I feel very unprotected without encryption. The default > >> configuration of my router is 64 bit encryption, which even makes easier > >> for someone to break in my computer than with 128 bit. But I have the > >> hope to find a cure for the impossibility to get an IP address with > >> encryption on. Maybe that we know now that I can connect with encryption > >> off Mikkel, you, or even me can come with something to make the bloody > >> adapter to work properly. If we do not succeed, I'll return the adapter > >> to my dealer and ask him to change it for something else. > >> > >> Teilhard. ... > I give you the output of iwconfig: > --------------------------- > # iwconfig > > lo no wireless extensions. > > > > wlan0 802.11b/g NIC ESSID:"" > > Mode:Managed Frequency=2.442GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 > > Bit Rate:11Mb/s > > Retry:off RTS thr=2432 B Fragment thr:off > > Encryption key:off > > Power Management:off > > Link Quality:8/92 Signal level:60/154 Noise level:161/154 > > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 > > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 > > > > eth1 no wireless extensions. > > > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > > > sit0 no wireless extensions. > > _____________________ > > If I run iwconfig while the interface is trying to connect, I get: "no > wireless extensions" for wlan0. What I find odd is the entry: "Encryption > key:off" in wlan0. It detects the key off, and I wonder how that might > happen. I hope you have an idea of what may be wrong. > > Teilhard.
As far as losing the connection goes, your link quality looks like a problem to me. That's a very low quality connection. Since quality tends to fluctuate up and down all the time, this could cause it to periodically lose it completely. How far is your NIC from your access point? How many walls in between? Any metallic obstacles? I had signal quality problems at first because I had my access point in my basement office, and my house has forced air heating, which means big metal ducts running through the floors. Whenever I had a duct between me and the access point I would lose the signal. Putting the access point up higher solved the problem. BTW, I always intended to investigate that encryption key problem more. It seemed to me to be a problem in the little app that handled the wireless NIC config (I had no success at all trying to manually configure the config file(s)). But perhaps it was a misunderstanding in how to specify the key. I think there's some transform that's applied to a 104 bit key to get a 128 bit key. Perhaps the Windoze config does that transform for you but the Linux one requires you to do it yourself. I was 100% sure I was giving the correct key at both ends also. If you do find the answer let me know (that laptop I was using it with kind of died). -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. "As you know, necessity is the mother of invention. I don't know who the father is. Remorse, I guess." - Red Green
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