On Monday 01 Dec 2003 4:45 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: SNIP > > Thanks a lot, Derek. It seems everything is set now. I still do not get > into Internet, though. First, as you said, iwconfig gives: > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& > wlan0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"2WIRE193" Nickname:"castillo.nuthouse.nut" > Mode:Managed Channel:6 Access Point: 00:0D:72:17:AA:E9 > > Bit Rate=11Mb/s > > RTS thr=1536 B Fragment thr=1536 B > > Encryption key:9442-9454-75 Security mode:open > > Power Management:off > > Link Quality:0 Signal level:100 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 >
The fact that we can see the MAC address of your Wireless Access point tells us that the wireless link is working. However Link Quality :0 usually means that the encryption key is wrong. It could be your key is actually an ASCII string even though it looks like a number. Try with WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=s:9442945475 If that does not help you can confirm if the problem is with the encryption key by disabling encryption in the router and Linux client. You can test if the link is working with ping ping 172.16.1.34 will test your local interface ping 172.16.0.1 will test the wireless link to your router > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& > > I wrote the two lines you mention in "blacklist. > > I guess the problem is in my ifcfg-wlan0 file. I worte it as: > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > DEVICE=wlan0 > > BOOTPROTO=static > > IPADDR=172.16.1.34 > > NETMASK=255.255.0.0 > > NETWORK=172.16.0.1 this should be NETWORK=172.16.0.0 > > ONBOOT=yes > > KEY=94:42:94:54:75 It should really be WIRELESS_ENC_KEY= 94:42:94:54:75 but from the output above it is clear it has accepted what you put. > > WIRELESS_RATE=11M > > WIRELESS_MODE=managed > > WIRELESS_ESSID=2WIRE193 > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > Note that the line giving the value of BROADCAST is absent, I simply could > not figure out what to put there. BROADCAST= 172.16.0.255 > > Only thing to mention is that my wireless modem is a router too. I then > wrote everything as if the adaptor "saw" an static configuration. Although > the "external" IP may vary (dynamic account), the internal IP's are always > the same. > > For NETWORK, I wrote the router address, and also for NETMASK, the router > NETMASK, the IPADDR is the "internal" one. For the WIRELESS_MODE, I would > have written: "infrastructure", but in your web example you select > "managed", so, perhaps it is not what I am thinking. The driver understands two modes 'Managed' for use with a wireless access point, and 'Ad-hoc' for peer to peer networking without an access point. > > Thanks so much for helping me with this. > > Teilhard. no problem derek BTW: If you also have an Ethernet on this computer, then you need to tell it which interface to use for internet access. To do that edit /etc/sysconfig/network and insert the line GATEWAYDEV=wlan0 and it might also help if you declare your router to be a gateway GATEWAY=172.16.0.1 (assuming that is the address of your router) -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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