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Re: Wireless networking help - can't find AP



Dne, 30. 06. 2009 09:26:39 je Joel Roth napisal(a):
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:08:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:23:39 +0000
> > Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com> wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > > My wireless network interface is present:
> > > 
> > > $ iwconfig wlan0
> > > 
> > > wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:""  
> > >           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point:
> Not-Associated   
> > >           Tx-Power=0 dBm   
> > >           Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B   
> > >           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
> > > 
> > > However, I don't find the D-Link 614+:
> > > 
> > > $ iwlist wlan0 scan
> > > 
> > > wlan0     No scan results
> > > 
> > > And of course, dhclient fails to find a server.
> > 
> > a) Scanning may not work if the interface is administratively
> 'down'.
> > Try 'ifconfig wlan0 up' and then scanning.
>  
> Tried and failed: no scan results. (I made sure  wlan0 was
> up before, too.)
> 
> > b) What happens if you just go ahead and set the essid manually:
> > 'iwconfig wlan0 essid your-essid' and then 'iwconfig wlan0' to see
> if
> > it associates?
> 
> Tried, but it does not associate.
> 
> I also tried setting the channel number. No change, and iwconfig
> doesn't
> show the setting. 
> 
> I also looked in the BIOS for a wireless enable/disable
> setting, but no such menu item is present.
> 
> Thanks for your suggestions.
> 
> Joel
>  
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This may be far-fetched, but... do you have the ieee80211_crypt_tkip 
module installed? And the wpasupplicant package?

Good luck!
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