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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

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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.

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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... :)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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