Teilhard Knight wrote: > > I did as you say, and it made no difference. There is something really > odd in the report of iwconfig. See below. > > >> The other posibility is that we are changing the wrong config file. But >> I do not think this is the case. In any case, when you get a chance, run >> iwconfig on the machine whith the NIC plugged in, and the interface >> trying to connect, and let us know what is says. It should show the >> wireless status, and if it is trying to use an encription key or not. >> (iwconfig is the wireless compliment to ifconfig.) > > > > I give you the output of iwconfig: > --------------------------- > # iwconfig > > lo no wireless extensions. > > > > wlan0 802.11b/g NIC ESSID:"" > > Mode:Managed Frequency=2.442GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 > > Bit Rate:11Mb/s > > Retry:off RTS thr=2432 B Fragment thr:off > > Encryption key:off > > Power Management:off > > Link Quality:8/92 Signal level:60/154 Noise level:161/154 > > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 > > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 > > > If I run iwconfig while the interface is trying to connect, I get: "no > wireless extensions" for wlan0. What I find odd is the entry: > "Encryption key:off" in wlan0. It detects the key off, and I wonder how > that might happen. I hope you have an idea of what may be wrong. > > Teilhard. > > This is usualy because of the type in the ifcfg-wlan file. But this usualy shows up in the log as well. One way that may let you see the messages is to run, as root:
ifdown wlan0 ifup wlan0 This will bring down the interface, and then bring it back up. Because you are doing it from the shell, instead of it being done for you, you should see the error messages. The other thing you can try is to give the iwconfig commands one at a time, and see what is wrong. You could try running" iwconfig essid "<access point essid>" iwconfig key <your encription key, in HEX> iwconfig key restricted iwconfig commit If that works, then send me your ifcfg-wlan0 file, and your wireless key in hex, and I will check your configuration, and send you any corrections off the list. (I assume you don't want to share the key on the list...) If it doesn't work, post any error messages, and maybe we can figure it out. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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