No Wireless Connection

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 17:12 -0400, John Dey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I now have a ipw3945.ko driver set up.  The driver is being recognized 
> by system-config-network.  But when I try to make the wireless eth1 
> active I get an error:
> 
> Determining IP information for eth1...failed; no link present.  Check 
> cable?
> 
> iwconfig eth1 from command line produces
> 
> eth1      unassociated  ESSID:"linksys"  Nickname:"robo6.jsdey.com"
>            Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.412 GHz  Access Point: 
> Not-Associated
>            Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:16 dBm
>            Retry limit:15   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>            Encryption key: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:27   Missed beacon:0
> 
> I do know that the linksys WAP and ipw3945 wireless device are working 
> since I installed opensuse 10.2 and wireless connected out of the box.
> 
> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.  And thanks for getting me 
> this far.

Did you set up your mode (managed or ad-hoc), WEP key and set the key
type (open or restricted)?

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