ramfree17 Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 (edited) Getting Linux wireless connectivity in my Wind has been my only gripe and some of you might have already read about it in this thread. With the official release of 2009.0, i decided to download the two CDs and reinstall mandriva. I configured the sources from the easyurpmi site because the official update api site keeps on throwing me to a site that fails to add (maybe its in the middle of a synchronization process). Anyway, I configured the wireless card using the network center instead of going straight to drakconnect. It downloaded all the prerequisite software to use the native drivers (rtls8187se), installs everything properly (assumed since i did not see any error) and at the end it detects the correct signal. I configured it with the correct passkey (please see wifi-config.png, i changed it for the screenshot :) ) but nothing happens when I press connect except this message in the console SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported i tried executing dhclient and dhcpcd in the cli since i was able to do that in my fujitsu laptop but i didnt get any offers. dhcpcd just fails. below is the output of the various commands that I tried: [root@localhost /tmp]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:92:58:4F:32 inet addr:192.168.0.102 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21d:92ff:fe58:4f32/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2129 errors:0 dropped:1374996811 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1495 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1848620 (1.7 MiB) TX bytes:109616 (107.0 KiB) Interrupt:16 Base address:0x4000 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:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1100 (1.0 KiB) TX bytes:1100 (1.0 KiB) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:92:C6:6C:35 inet6 addr: fe80::21d:92ff:fec6:6c35/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:844 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:287 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:645 (645.0 b) TX bytes:10775 (10.5 KiB) Interrupt:17 Memory:f8bf8000-f8bf8100 [root@localhost /tmp]# dhcpcd wlan0 Error, wlan0: timed out Error, wlan0: lease information file `/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-wlan0.info' does not exist Warning, wlan0: using IPV4LL address 169.254.83.14 [root@localhost /tmp]# dhclient wlan0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.7 Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:1d:92:c6:6c:35 Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:1d:92:c6:6c:35 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. [root@localhost /tmp]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 802.11b/g linked ESSID:"kaboom" Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:13:46:41:D2:62 Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Retry:on RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management timeout:0us mode:All packets received Link Quality=94/100 Signal level=-156 dBm Noise level=6 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 [root@localhost /tmp]# iwlist wlan0 scanning wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:13:46:41:D2:62 ESSID:"kaboom" Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Master Channel:6 Encryption key:on Bit Rates:54 Mb/s Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 9 11 6 12 18 24 36 48 54 Quality=94/100 Signal level=-173 dBm Noise level=17 dBm IE: WPA Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK Extra: Last beacon: 44ms ago [root@localhost /tmp]# ifup wlan0 Determining IP information for wlan0... failed. [root@localhost /tmp]# any other suggestions on how to proceed? just this thing and my wind will finally be windows free when i am not using it for work. :) thanks! ciao! Edited October 20, 2008 by ramfree17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 iwconfig and dmesg output may be useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted October 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 thanks adamw. ill post the dmesg message tonight. the iwconfig output is already in the quoted terminal commands (third from the bottom). ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted October 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 uploading the output of my dmesg. the last lines was produced when i tried using the kde applet to connect to the wireless ap. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 sorry if I'm being dim, but, I don't see it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted October 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 oh crap, its missing. i spent 5 minutes uploading that 41kb file last night as my internet connection was dog slow. ill re-upload it later and duplicate in my blog. sorry. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted October 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 uploading take 2. ciao! dmesg.txt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 Hum. No errors there. The only thing i see is no WPA key in iwconfig output. Can you please try configuring via drakconnect instead of net_applet? thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted October 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 the gui drakconnect hits the same "blank" wireless network list[1] so i switched to using the console mode. everything went according to the expected screens and i got a congratulatory remark at the end. the wireless card is still unable to get any IP address from the server and the only errors in the console is the SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported message. :( ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 Is iwconfig showing an encryption key now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted October 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 its showing the same output. i read about iwconfig and wpa_supplicant thinking that maybe i can force it manually but found out that wpa_supplicant is already running as a daemon and the configuration for my AP is correctly entered in the wpa_supplicant configuration file. if there are no other option to try then over the weekend i am thinking of downgrading my access point to WEP since nobody near our house seems to use any computer so its fairly "safe". if that fails then i will try the ndiswrapper route again. :( ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 I think it may need ndiswrapper :\. Sounds like maybe there's a bug in the driver. It would be interesting to run wpa_cli as root while it's trying to connect, and see what it says is going on (it's an interactive interface to wpa_supplicant, it will print out some status messages on what wpa_supplicant is doing). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted October 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 here iis the wpa_cli output whever i configure/connect the wireless interface Selected interface 'wlan0' Interactive mode > <2>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys <2>CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 15 received 'PING' command timed out. Connection to wpa_supplicant lost - trying to reconnect Connection to wpa_supplicant re-established <2>WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:13:46:41:d2:62 [PTK=TKIP GTK=TKIP] <2>CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:13:46:41:d2:62 completed (auth) [id=0 id_str=] there isnt any activity posted when i try to get a new DHCP offer though. i am using a DLink router so i tried disabling the Turbo G enhancements but the results are the same. i downgraded the encryption to WEP and now i can connect wirelessly (posting it while inside the bedroom, :) ). i think i will hold off using ndiwsrapper untill i can find another WPA access point to isolate that the problem is really with the driver and not my access point. any further suggestions would be welcome though. :) ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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