ursulakatariina Posted November 26, 2009 Report Share Posted November 26, 2009 If in wrong forum, please forgive me - just didn't know where to put this... Does anyone know if there is something funny with wireless connections and Linux in Spain? After I came to Spain, I have not been able to use any wireless network, two different distros, two different wlan adapters. Nothing helps, no changing the regulatory domain to Spain, not even a fresh installation of Mandriva. So is there something funny in Spanish networks working with Linux or is this just happening to me because I have done something bad in the year 1834 to someone? Both adapters are working in you know what big bad W. -u Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 26, 2009 Report Share Posted November 26, 2009 Can you tell us what happens? Does it attempt to connect and then nothing? I've been in a hotel recently, and found that I couldn't connect to the access point. First time it was protected by a WEP key, and they gave me two different keys to connect. The next time they had changed it and it was an open network and still I couldn't connect. This was in Poland. However, in another different hotel, all was working fine. I don't believe it's country specific, but I think more to do with the access point and I don't know why. I didn't have Windows to check/test to see if it would work, and so I couldn't rule out whether it was a problem with my wireless adaptor or whether it was a problem with the operating system. But if you find it's working in Windows, then I would say it's something under Linux just I have no idea what as I've yet to fix it myself and since I was only there a day or two, I didn't spend much time looking at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted November 26, 2009 Report Share Posted November 26, 2009 Maybe you need a Spanish Version ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ursulakatariina Posted November 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2009 Can you tell us what happens? Does it attempt to connect and then nothing? There is many networks shown in Network Manager, open and protected ones. When trying to connect any of them, it sometimes seems like it's connected but still cannot surf (network monitor shows there is traffic both ways in and out). Sometimes it tries to connect but no connection at all. Have tried to disable IPv6 - no help. Before moving to Spain, I was living in Ireland for about two years - no problems there, then I went to Finland for few weeks - no problems there. Currently, after installing 2010.0, I think it may be that my adapter isn't working properly as I haven't had time to fight with the Broadcom-thing... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 27, 2009 Report Share Posted November 27, 2009 Hmm, so I'm assuming if you got IP address or not for the adaptor? When connected, you can get connection information from Network Manager and see if an IP address is assigned, or you can always get it from the console with: ifconfig wlan0 or whatever the wireless device is called. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted November 27, 2009 Report Share Posted November 27, 2009 Would ifconfig give a list of adapters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 27, 2009 Report Share Posted November 27, 2009 Yes, of course, but I thought about filtering it down to one device. When I run it on mine, I get loads - mainly because of the xen kernel and so is hard to find the info I want immediately :) Just so you see what I mean: [root@esprit ~]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1A:4B:65:D4:3E inet6 addr: fe80::21a:4bff:fe65:d43e/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:2520 (2.4 KiB) 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:2936 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2936 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:4157928 (3.9 MiB) TX bytes:4157928 (3.9 MiB) peth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF UP BROADCAST NOARP 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) Interrupt:18 Memory:e4000000-e4010000 vif0.0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2520 (2.4 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:468 (468.0 B) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:77:BC:68:97 inet addr:10.1.1.12 Bcast:10.1.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21b:77ff:febc:6897/64 Scope:Link 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) wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1B-77-BC-68-97-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 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) xenbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2352 (2.2 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) whereas: [root@esprit ~]# ifconfig wlan0 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:77:BC:68:97 inet addr:10.1.1.12 Bcast:10.1.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21b:77ff:febc:6897/64 Scope:Link 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) less info :) of course means you need to know what the adapter is called, but then once you know it, it's simple. Atheros interfaces tend to be ath0, broadcomm I'm unsure of as I don't have one of these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted November 27, 2009 Report Share Posted November 27, 2009 Most of wouldn't have that many. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Generally no :) You'd just have eth0, eth1 maybe and lo as well as wlan0 and perhaps wmaster0 too depending on wireless card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ursulakatariina Posted December 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 Hmm, so I'm assuming if you got IP address or not for the adaptor? When connected, you can get connection information from Network Manager and see if an IP address is assigned, or you can always get it from the console with: ifconfig wlan0 or whatever the wireless device is called. Yes, when it seems like there is connection, there is an IP address assigned and ping to google goes trough but surfing still isn't possible - it just hangs or every page gives the 'page cannot be displayed' -error. This with open, unprotected networks. Still no connection to any protected networks - hasn't even looked like it's connected to any protected network here. WPA supplicant is installed. Fortunately there is free internet in the library and the computers here have Linux installed but it would be much easier to be able to use my own laptop... Don't have a connection at home yet as it's not so easy here in Spain to get one - can take a veeeeery long time for the connection to be installed. Now I think the Broadcom is ready for use, but cannot be sure as it still won't connect :D It's not always easy to be a penguin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 Have you tried disabling ipv6? You can disable in Firefox, by typing about:config in url bar, then filter for ipv6 and then this will be disabled in Firefox. System-wide you can disable in a number of places. Usually in /etc/modprobe.conf, and also can be done in /etc/sysconfig/network as well (sometimes both is required). Although I have noticed that /etc/modprobe.d can also have some scripts in place aliases.conf which you can disable ipv6 also. How to disable: http://www.linuxsolutions.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 Have you tried disabling ipv6? You can disable in Firefox, by typing about:config in url bar, then filter for ipv6 and then this will be disabled in Firefox. System-wide you can disable in a number of places. Usually in /etc/modprobe.conf, and also can be done in /etc/sysconfig/network as well (sometimes both is required). Although I have noticed that /etc/modprobe.d can also have some scripts in place aliases.conf which you can disable ipv6 also. How to disable: http://www.linuxsolutions.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=26 You forgot to mention network center in mcc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 I must have to try that method :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Bergen Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 It sounds like a DNS issue. The default with Mandriva is to use the gateway as the Domain Name Server. The last version of Mandriva that it worked for me was 2008.1, in newer versions I've had to manually set a DNS address. I found three DNS addresses for Spain 195.53.125.141 195.53.204.139 217.15.32.2 Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ursulakatariina Posted December 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 Yesterday there was a connection - for about two minutes. In that time I got to the hotspot login page - almost - couple of lines appeared and then the connection went down. I had manually set the dns addresses so it may be that the solution can be found from there - just have to get somewhere to test it properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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