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This laptop has Lenny installed. It has a built in IBM 3945 wireless
card. Once I installed the firmware-iwlwifi package the laptop
recognized this card and allowed me to configure it. While I usually
use a RJ-45 cable connection to connect to networks, I am presently
temporarily located where a wireless connection is more convenient.
By using KDE's "Network Settings" page, accessible from the KDE control
panel under "Internet & Network", I was at first able to make this
connection in automatic DHCP mode by entering the ESSID and the
hexadecimal WEP key. This arrangement however had its problems. At
first I selected "Network Settings" to activate this connection on boot
up, but it did not work. After switching off this selection I was then
able to establish the connection manually, but had to re-enter the ESSID
and the key -- and select "hexadecimal" for the key instead of ascii" --
several times in "Network Settings" before I finally would get a connection.
This arrangement worked for about a week, but now I am no longer able to
connect no matter what I do. "Ifconfig wlan0" returns the following:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7050"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:4765-6973-6265-7267-7374-7231-37
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
Both the ESSID and the Encryption key are correct, but Access Point: is
"Not Associated".
"Iwlist wlan0 scan" returns, in part the following:
Cell 01 - Address: 00:04:0E:76:FF:46
ESSID:"FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7050"
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=91/100 Signal level=-40 dBm Noise
level=-127 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 22 Mb/s
6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=000000950e6329f5
"Ifup wlan" returns "ifup: interface wlan0 already configured".
These are the same settings I have been using all week, and now they
don't work. I would certainly like to know why, and what to do -- not
only to get the connection working again, but also to be able to
activate it on boot up.
Regards,
Ken Heard
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