Hi, I am trying to get a dwl-g630 pcmcia wireless card to go in my notebook
running suse 9.3. I have the wireless-tools module installed. The Yast network
card tool shows a D-Link WLAN controller configured with DHCP, correct ESSID and
authentication info. /var/log/messages shows the card's mac address being
found. I'm stuck now beyond showing the output of a few commands I think may be
relevant. What do I need to be looking at from here?
Cheers,
Roger
Look again, the output of iwconfig shows that there is no essid set.
Also we don't have the output of ifconfig, so cannot see if it is up
and has an IP address.
Yes I had seen that iwconfig showed on essid yet it WAS set in Yast
"network card". I had double-checked that yesterday and saw no change.
On bringing the machine home and trying again with my wag54 linksys
router and changing the appropriate settings, there is plenty of
progress (I'll restrict my attempts to getting it working at home for
now). The router is giving out an ip address to the card and it shows
on the router's wireless client list. The notebook itself shows the
card has obtained an ip address from the router. iwconfig looks better
(essid is shows correctly). That is all good. The default gateway is
set to the ip address of the router (via "routing" in Yast's "network
card").
I can ping the card from the notebook, but can't ping the router,
getting "destination host unreachable". I can't ping the card from
another machine on the network.
Also, (not every time) when saving the settings in "network card" the
notebook will lock up hard - totally unresponsive to any ctrl+alt+
option, the only choice I have being to power down. May be a clue?
fresh output of ifconfig and iwconfig:
notebook:/home/roger # ifconfig
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:46:74:9A:D0
inet6 addr: fe80::213:46ff:fe74:9ad0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:13 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:13
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:10 Memory:d8ec0000-d8ed0000
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E2:9C:46:72
inet addr:192.168.1.69 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::200:e2ff:fe9c:4672/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:182 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:30319 (29.6 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4664 (4.5 Kb) TX bytes:4664 (4.5 Kb)
notebook:/home/roger # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"rnsRouter" Nickname:"notebook"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: 00:13:10:FB:A7:50
Bit Rate:36 Mb/s Tx-Power:50 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:AD83-94FF-5042-B001-04F9-F6B0-A459-5D5B Security
mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality=39/94 Signal level=-56 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
notebook:/home/roger # cardctl ident
Socket 0:
product info: "Atheros Communications, Inc.", "AR5001-0000-0000", "Wireless
LAN Reference Card", "00"
manfid: 0x0271, 0x0012
function: 6 (network)
notebook:/home/roger # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Nickname:"notebook"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.427 GHz Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power:50 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=18/94 Signal level=-77 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:1 Invalid misc:1 Missed beacon:0
notebook:/home/roger # tail -12 /var/log/messages
Dec 8 17:22:52 notebook kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:03:00.0 (0000 ->
0002)
Dec 8 17:22:52 notebook kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 10
(level, low) -> IRQ 10
Dec 8 17:22:52 notebook kernel: ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
Dec 8 17:22:52 notebook kernel: ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
Dec 8 17:22:52 notebook kernel: ath0: mac 7.8 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
Dec 8 17:22:52 notebook kernel: ath0: 802.11 address: 00:13:46:74:9a:d0
Dec 8 17:22:52 notebook kernel: ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BE traffic
Dec 8 17:22:52 notebook kernel: ath0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BK traffic
Dec 8 17:22:52 notebook kernel: ath0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
Dec 8 17:22:52 notebook kernel: ath0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
Dec 8 17:22:52 notebook kernel: ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x18800000, irq=10
Dec 8 17:23:04 notebook kernel: ath0: no IPv6 routers present
