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Still struggling with my wireless configuration. I'm working with a |
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known good wireless card, and a known good wireless access point. I can |
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detect the access point but I just can't get an IP address via DHCP. |
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Can someone suggest a direction to go from here? |
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I've got all encryption turned off for now. The syslog contains |
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"Setting SW wep key" which looks wrong to me. |
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Compaq Armada 7800 |
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Netgear PCMCIA wireless card, MA521 (RealTek 8190 chipset) |
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Gentoo Linux from 2005.1 liveCD |
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kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 |
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wireless-tools version 27 |
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rtl8180 version 0.21-r1 |
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This are the commands I'm running. Some of these may be unnecessary |
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(don't really know what I'm doing). |
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ifconfig wlan0 up |
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iwconfig wlan0 channel 6 |
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iwconfig wlan0 essid default |
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/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start |
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This is the output in the terminal window when I run the commands listed |
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above: |
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Starting wlan0 |
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Configuring wireless network for wlan0 |
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wlan0 connected to "default" at F8:BF:80:C6:F7:B7 |
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in auto mode (WEP disabled) |
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Bringing up wlan0 |
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Configuration not set for wlan0 - assuming dhcp |
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dhcp |
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Running dhcpcd ... |
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(times out, even when I increase the timeout to 60 sec) |
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This is an excerpt of the syslog: |
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Sep 29 14:56:07 [kernel] rtl8180: Bringing up iface |
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Sep 29 14:56:07 [kernel] rtl8180: Card successfully reset |
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Sep 29 14:56:08 [kernel] rtl8180: Configuring CARDBUS registers |
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Sep 29 14:56:12 [kernel] rtl8180: Setting SW wep key |
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Sep 29 14:56:12 [kernel] rtl8180: Bringing up iface |
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Sep 29 14:56:12 [kernel] rtl8180: Card successfully reset |
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Sep 29 14:56:12 [kernel] rtl8180: Configuring CARDBUS registers |
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Sep 29 14:56:13 [kernel] rtl8180: Bringing up iface |
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Sep 29 14:56:13 [kernel] rtl8180: Card successfully reset |
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Sep 29 14:56:13 [kernel] rtl8180: Configuring CARDBUS registers |
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Sep 29 14:56:13 [kernel] rtl8180: Bringing up iface |
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Sep 29 14:56:14 [kernel] rtl8180: Card successfully reset |
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Sep 29 14:56:14 [kernel] rtl8180: Configuring CARDBUS registers |
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Sep 29 14:56:15 [kernel] rtl8180: Setting SW wep key |
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Sep 29 14:56:15 [rc-scripts] Configuration not set for wlan0 - assuming dhcp |
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Sep 29 14:57:15 [dhcpcd] timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response_ |
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This is the output of iwconfig: |
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lo no wireless extensions. |
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wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"default" |
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Mode:Auto Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: DB:B7:A1:FF:FF:FF |
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Bit Rate=11 Mb/s |
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Retry:on Fragment thr:off |
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Encryption key:off |
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Link Quality=96/100 Signal level=-39 dBm Noise level=-252 dBm |
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Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 |
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Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 |
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This is the output of lsmod: |
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Module Size Used by |
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3c589_cs 10760 1 |
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r8180 53100 0 |
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ieee80211_r8180 30788 1 r8180 |
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ieee80211_crypt_r8180 4388 1 ieee80211_r8180 |
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pcmcia 21224 5 3c589_cs |
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yenta_socket 20296 3 |
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rsrc_nonstatic 11200 1 yenta_socket |
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pcmcia_core 43396 4 3c589_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic |
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snd_pcm_oss 48096 0 |
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snd_mixer_oss 17152 1 snd_pcm_oss |
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snd_seq_oss 32384 0 |
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snd_seq_midi_event 6272 1 snd_seq_oss |
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snd_seq 49744 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event |
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snd_es18xx 28456 0 |
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snd_pcm 83144 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_es18xx |
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snd_page_alloc 7620 1 snd_pcm |
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snd_opl3_lib 8992 1 snd_es18xx |
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snd_timer 21220 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib |
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snd_hwdep 7040 1 snd_opl3_lib |
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snd_mpu401_uart 6176 1 snd_es18xx |
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snd_rawmidi 20384 1 snd_mpu401_uart |
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snd_seq_device 6860 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi |
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snd 47940 12 |
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snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_es18xx,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device |
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soundcore 7392 1 snd |
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aes_i586 38208 1 |
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usbcore 108572 1 |
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loop 13800 0 |
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