After I get the ipw2200 up...
Alexander Sukhodolsky
umdsasha at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 17:44:25 UTC 2006
Looks like a little troubleshooting has determined there's nothing wrong
with the setup--I disabled the key and it works! But the last thing I want
is an unsecured wireless connection. Basically, I have a WEP 64-bit hex key
for my wireless net. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Alex
PS Thanks for the help
On 1/17/06, Alexander Sukhodolsky <umdsasha at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> not really sure--but my eth0 (wired ethernet) is disconnected anyway. I
> tried to down eth0 and eth1 and the up eth1, but with no luck.
>
> Alex
>
> On 1/17/06, Justin Conover <justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 1/17/06, Alexander Sukhodolsky < umdsasha at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I wish I could tell you it worked, but even though I followed what you
> > > said and created wireless.sh and so on, still nothing--it runs and
> > > shows up in iwconfig as connected to that, but still can't ping. Also, just
> > > for info, Network Configuration gets stuck on trying to get IP and then says
> > > it's unable to connect--any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Alex
> >
> >
> >
> > Does ifconfig eth1 get an ip? Does eth0 still have an ip too? If both
> > of those are true, you might disable eth0
> >
> > /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
> >
> > On 1/17/06, Justin Conover < justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 1/17/06, Justin Conover < justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 1/17/06, Alexander Sukhodolsky < umdsasha at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So I followed Justin Conover's ipw2200 how-to (very easy) and
> > > > > > got my
> > > > > > wireless adapter to be recognized under the new fc5 test2 (i
> > > > > > used the
> > > > > > newest firmware, though). But now I'm having problems actually
> > > > > > connecting. Basically, I went with what I know--kwifimanager
> > > > > > and also
> > > > > > system-config-network. The system-config-network shows my
> > > > > > wireless card
> > > > > > and I try to set up a connection but nothing. Now with
> > > > > > kwifimanager, it
> > > > > > shows all the ssid's of networks around and I set up in the
> > > > > > configuration my network, and its corresponding password, and it
> > > > > > does
> > > > > > connect, but firefox shows nothing. Any ideas?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Also--I tried networkmanager, including running the services
> > > > > > (serviceconf) and running it, but to no avail--/usr/bin doesnt
> > > > > > seem to
> > > > > > have NetworkManagerInfo or something. Any ideas? Anyone else
> > > > > > have
> > > > > > these problems in the new fc5 test2?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > Alex
> > > > > >
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> > > > >
> > > > > If you see the device from /sbin/iwconfig
> > > > >
> > > > > /sbin/iwconfig
> > > > > lo no wireless extensions.
> > > > >
> > > > > eth0 no wireless extensions.
> > > > >
> > > > > eth1 unassociated ESSID:off/any
> > > > > Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point:
> > > > > 00:00:00:00:00:00
> > > > > Bit Rate=0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
> > > > > Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> > > > > Power Management:off
> > > > > Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
> > > > > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> > > > > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
> > > > >
> > > > > For example I just have a little script in my users $HOME
> > > > >
> > > > > $ cat wireless.sh
> > > > > #!/bin/bash
> > > > > /bin/su -c "/sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid YOURACCESSPOINT key YOURKEY
> > > > > && /sbin/dhclient eth1 && /sbin/ifconfig eth1"
> > > > >
> > > > > just chmod +x and sh wireless.sh as your user and should be up.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Just realized I should test out NetworkManager when I get home
> > > > tonight :)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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