Re: orinoco wireless with WEP under kernel 2.6.14-2-686
On Wednesday, 28 December 2005 at 20:03:12 +0100, Richard Mittendorfer wrote:
> Also sprach Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> (Wed, 28 Dec 2005
> 18:33:11 +0000):
[...]
> > Thinkpad 600E, Kernel 2.6.14-2-686, sid, orinoco wifi card.
> > Wifi card talks to the Netgear DG834G router when security is
> > disabled, but when I turn WEP on it doesn't connect.
> > [...]
> > /etc/network/interfaces has
> >
> > iface eth0 inet dhcp
> > wireless-essid Coigxxxxxxxx
> > wireless-key xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx
[...]
> Have your tried to leave those "-" out? Anyway, both should do.
Yes, I have tried without the "-" : same result.
> Also use wireless-mode managed (or auto)
> wireless-channel xx
> wireless-key restricted xx128bitxx (or open) (or just the key)
> ..in /e/n/i.
I get no change when adding mode and channel and the 'restricted'
keyword.
I am not sure /etc/network/interfaces is even being sourced. After
bootup, it does not have any details of the access point. Manually
giving essid and key and then ifup results in first the correct AP
details and then in associating it and showing the correct frequency.
But connections fails, and Rx invalid crypt gets an entry. See below.
To my innocent eye, this suggests that there are two problems:
- /e/n/i not sourced at bootup
- kernel/modules problem with encryption.
Does that seem a correct analysis? Or is it merely one of those
problems of sequence of loading modules that I really do not understand?
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castagna:~# iwconfig eth0
eth0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"" Nickname "HERMES I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/92 Signal level=134/153 Noise level=134/153
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
castagna:~# iwconfig eth0 essid Coixxxxxx
castagna:~# iwconfig eth0 key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
castagna:~# iwconfig eth0
eth0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Coixxxxxxxxx" Nickname "HERMES I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/92 Signal level=134/153 Noise level=134/153
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
castagna:~# ifup eth0
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0p15
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium
All Rights Reserved.
Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
eth0: New link status: Connected (0001)
Listening on LPF/eth0/00.02.2d.a6.07.bb
Sending on LPF/eth0/00.02.2d.a6.07.bb
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
Do DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database.
Exiting.
Failed to bring up eth0.
castagna:~# iwconfig eth0
eth0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Coixxxxxxxxx" Nickname "HERMES I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.427 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:B5:51:D7:FC
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=10/92 Signal level=-78 dBm Noise level=-88 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:305 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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richard
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