Re: Wireless networking help - can't find AP

[Wayne Topa <linuxtwo@gmail.com>]

Joel Roth wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 12:23:37PM +0200, Klistvud wrote:
> > 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
> > >  
> > > > Celejar
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> > This may be far-fetched, but... do you have the ieee80211_crypt_tkip 
> > module installed? And the wpasupplicant package?
>
> Thanks for the suggestions. 'apt-cache search' does not find
> ieee80211_crypt_tkip  or anything remotely similar.

locate ieee80211_crypt_tkip
/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.26/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip
/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.29/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.o


WT