Kwifi manager, Help

[photoworks]

I just discovered KWIFI Manager and when i opened it, apparently if detect a signal from my wireless card.

 

However i do not know how to configure it so that the wireless network would work>

Any help would be appreciated.

 

I have this card, by the way, on my computer

Edited April 4, 2005 by photoworks

[Gowator]

In that case your card must be partially configured ....

(which is good)

I have 3.3.1 here which you see in help about ...

What I found is it helps using the cli tools (iwconfig)

so you can use (my interface isn't eth2 its ath0)

 

iwconfig ath0 rate 54M

iwconfig ath0 channel 10

iwconfig ath0 essid accesspoint (where access point is the name of your access point)

 

I start of unencrpted, choose the scan and it should see the access point

if not try forcing the rate ... and channel and use ifconfig to start/stop inbetween

 

the good thing in Kwifi is you see when somethng worked! Otherwise you can go in circles.

 

 

My noisy Wifi gives

ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"belkin54g"
         Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.457 GHz  Access Point: 00:30:F1:BF:34:F1
         Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:50 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
         Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
         Encryption key:off
         Power Management:off
         Link Quality=23/94  Signal level=-72 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
         Rx invalid nwid:7234252  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
         Tx excessive retries:21  Invalid misc:21   Missed beacon:10

[photoworks]

when i type iwconfig in the console, i obtain this :

 

[photoworks@ photoworks]$ su

Password:

[root@ photoworks]# iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

 

eth0 no wireless extensions.

 

eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"WLAN" Nickname:"localhost"

Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:30:BD:63:94:7A

Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3

Retry min limit:7 RTS thr=2346 B Fragment thr:off

Encryption key:off

Power Management:off

 

sit0 no wireless extensions

 

Any idea what i have to do ?

 

Here is the info about my acces boint :

 

BSS ID : 00:30:BD::63:94:7A

REGULATION DOMAIN : ETSI

WEP : DISABLED

ASSOCIATED STATIONS : 1

 

AP NANE : SergeAP

SSID : WLAN

channel : 11

RTS THRESHOLD : 2346

IP ADDRESS : 192.168.2.13

SUBNET MASK : 255.255.255.0

DEFAULT GATEWAY : 192.168.2.1

dhcp client : Disabled

 

ticked on accept any SSID

 

So where are the settings in mandrake to set parameters for the wireless card and what should i enter ?

 

I am totally at a loss.

[Gowator]

OK so WEP is disabled (good for testing)

try man iwconfig (it shows all options)

then I use (as root)

iwconfig channel 11

your seting look OK already....

 

if you

ifconfig eth1 down

ifconfig eth1 up

 

what messages... it should be searching for a DHCP server I guess which should be your access point?

if not you can try manually setting this

 

to test try (this is all from memory pls someone correct me if I make an error and photoworks try man too on the commands)

 

ifconfig eth1 192.168.2.113 (just a suitably high number probably not assigned)

route

if there is a default gw (marked gw) then

route del default

end if

route add default eth1 192.168.2.13

 

check /etc/resolv.conf

should be

dns,files and search domain should be the dns server of your ISP...

 

try first connecting to your box...

you can

ifconfig eth0 down

(will stop your wired connection can be brought back if you have probs with up instead of down)

 

then

use a web browser to go to

http://192.168.2.13

which should be the config page of your access point.

 

while doing all this watch the status in KWifi... it lets you know when something is working :D

[photoworks]

Ok, i tried to do what you said but, somehow, it does not work.

 

I am not sure i understand all of it.

 

Could you tell me exactly, step by step what i have to enter as command

 

Here is what i have now in interface eth1 KWIFI/MANAGER

 

status of active connection :

 

Connected to network : WLAN

access point : 00:30:BD:63:94:7A (which is by the way the right MAC address of my access point)

Local IP :192.168.2.13

frequency channel : 2462(11)

 

Access point unknown

 

here is again the information of my access point (that i am able to access from Windows XP) :

 

AP NANE : SergeAP

SSID : WLAN

channel : 11

RTS THRESHOLD : 2346

IP ADDRESS : 192.168.2.13

SUBNET MASK : 255.255.255.0

DEFAULT GATEWAY : 192.168.2.1

dhcp client : Disabled

 

So the question is, where do i get to enter the Access point Name (SergeAP) ? Somehow this variable is missing.

 

what about this configuration interface below (you get it when you click confing in KWIFI/MANAGER), how does it work ?

[coverup]

I may be wrong but as far as I understand, AP name is for information only. Here is what the kwifimanager handbook says

Access Point information (bottom area)

 

 

The last line of the main window shows information about your AccessPoint. This requires that your system administrator provided a list of MAC adresses with a corresponding information. An example for such a list can be found in

 

 

$KDEDIR/share/apps/kwifimanager/locations/DE_BW_Karlsruhe_University.loc

 

 

If you want to set up a new list, simply copy your file into the directory

 

 

$KDEDIR/share/apps/kwifimanager/locations/

 

 

It will be automatically parsed at the next start of KWiFiManager after a successful installation. By the way: if you have a list and want to have it included in future releases of KWiFiManager, simply send it to <mail@stefan-winter.de>

To configure wireless, I would use tools provided in the distro (such as MCC if you're using Mandrake) or would directly edit configuration scripts.

[photoworks]

I don't get it, what file do i have to copy onto directory ? i don't have a file and i do not know how to create one. I really do not have a clue. Is there not a step by step guide somewhere on how to configure those sort of things ?

[coverup]

I don't get it, what file do i have to copy onto directory ? i don't have a file and i do not know how to create one. I really do not have a clue. Is there not a step by step guide somewhere on how to configure those sort of things ?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

photoworks, sorry for the confusing post. The version of kwifimanger that I have is a bit outdated, thing may have changed.

 

First off, as far as I understand (please correct me if I am wrong), the wireless card doesn't need to know the AP name (SergeAP) to connect to the network. It needs the network SSID (or ESSID) and encryption keys. These parameters should be passed to the network interface startup script via the file called /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1. So, to get the wireless work, you need to edit/create that script. There have been many posts in this forum on how to create such script. Please post here the content of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1, and someone will assist you.

 

I would not rely on KDE GUI configuration tools for configuring nonKDE things such as wireless. Each distro has its own GUI tools for configuring networks, in MDK it's Mandrake Control Centre (MCC). If you are not comfortable with editing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1, then you should use MCC to configure eth1.