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From: Don Doumakes <doumakes@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-laptop] Compaq wireless net - really close, need a push
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:18:35
Message-Id: 433C59BA.2080407@loganet.net
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4 Still struggling with my wireless configuration. I'm working with a
5 known good wireless card, and a known good wireless access point. I can
6 detect the access point but I just can't get an IP address via DHCP.
7 Can someone suggest a direction to go from here?
8
9 I've got all encryption turned off for now. The syslog contains
10 "Setting SW wep key" which looks wrong to me.
11
12
13 Compaq Armada 7800
14 Netgear PCMCIA wireless card, MA521 (RealTek 8190 chipset)
15 Gentoo Linux from 2005.1 liveCD
16 kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r6
17 wireless-tools version 27
18 rtl8180 version 0.21-r1
19
20 This are the commands I'm running. Some of these may be unnecessary
21 (don't really know what I'm doing).
22
23 ifconfig wlan0 up
24 iwconfig wlan0 channel 6
25 iwconfig wlan0 essid default
26 /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start
27
28
29 This is the output in the terminal window when I run the commands listed
30 above:
31
32 Starting wlan0
33 Configuring wireless network for wlan0
34 wlan0 connected to "default" at F8:BF:80:C6:F7:B7
35 in auto mode (WEP disabled)
36 Bringing up wlan0
37 Configuration not set for wlan0 - assuming dhcp
38 dhcp
39 Running dhcpcd ...
40 (times out, even when I increase the timeout to 60 sec)
41
42
43 This is an excerpt of the syslog:
44
45 Sep 29 14:56:07 [kernel] rtl8180: Bringing up iface
46 Sep 29 14:56:07 [kernel] rtl8180: Card successfully reset
47 Sep 29 14:56:08 [kernel] rtl8180: Configuring CARDBUS registers
48 Sep 29 14:56:12 [kernel] rtl8180: Setting SW wep key
49 Sep 29 14:56:12 [kernel] rtl8180: Bringing up iface
50 Sep 29 14:56:12 [kernel] rtl8180: Card successfully reset
51 Sep 29 14:56:12 [kernel] rtl8180: Configuring CARDBUS registers
52 Sep 29 14:56:13 [kernel] rtl8180: Bringing up iface
53 Sep 29 14:56:13 [kernel] rtl8180: Card successfully reset
54 Sep 29 14:56:13 [kernel] rtl8180: Configuring CARDBUS registers
55 Sep 29 14:56:13 [kernel] rtl8180: Bringing up iface
56 Sep 29 14:56:14 [kernel] rtl8180: Card successfully reset
57 Sep 29 14:56:14 [kernel] rtl8180: Configuring CARDBUS registers
58 Sep 29 14:56:15 [kernel] rtl8180: Setting SW wep key
59 Sep 29 14:56:15 [rc-scripts] Configuration not set for wlan0 - assuming dhcp
60 Sep 29 14:57:15 [dhcpcd] timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response_
61
62
63 This is the output of iwconfig:
64
65 lo no wireless extensions.
66
67 wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"default"
68 Mode:Auto Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: DB:B7:A1:FF:FF:FF
69 Bit Rate=11 Mb/s
70 Retry:on Fragment thr:off
71 Encryption key:off
72 Link Quality=96/100 Signal level=-39 dBm Noise level=-252 dBm
73 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
74 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
75
76
77 This is the output of lsmod:
78
79 Module Size Used by
80 3c589_cs 10760 1
81 r8180 53100 0
82 ieee80211_r8180 30788 1 r8180
83 ieee80211_crypt_r8180 4388 1 ieee80211_r8180
84 pcmcia 21224 5 3c589_cs
85 yenta_socket 20296 3
86 rsrc_nonstatic 11200 1 yenta_socket
87 pcmcia_core 43396 4 3c589_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
88 snd_pcm_oss 48096 0
89 snd_mixer_oss 17152 1 snd_pcm_oss
90 snd_seq_oss 32384 0
91 snd_seq_midi_event 6272 1 snd_seq_oss
92 snd_seq 49744 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
93 snd_es18xx 28456 0
94 snd_pcm 83144 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_es18xx
95 snd_page_alloc 7620 1 snd_pcm
96 snd_opl3_lib 8992 1 snd_es18xx
97 snd_timer 21220 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
98 snd_hwdep 7040 1 snd_opl3_lib
99 snd_mpu401_uart 6176 1 snd_es18xx
100 snd_rawmidi 20384 1 snd_mpu401_uart
101 snd_seq_device 6860 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
102 snd 47940 12
103 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
104 soundcore 7392 1 snd
105 aes_i586 38208 1
106 usbcore 108572 1
107 loop 13800 0
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