12-02-2006, 12:12 AM
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 Re: Problem with Cisco wireless card under Suse Linux 10.1
starl8gazer@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm sending an updated problem description including info addressing
> Werner's comments. In short, I'm using DHCP; WLAN is unencrypted; output
> from 'iwconfig eth0' see below.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Starl8gazer
>
> ----
>
>
> Hardware:
>
> * IBM laptop Thinkpad T30 Type 2366-B1U S/N 78-HFTB9 08/02
>
> * Cisco PCMCIA card Aironet 340 11Mbps 2.4GHz DS
>
>
> System software:
>
> * dual boot machine Windows XP and Linux
>
> * Suse Linux 10.1, 'uname -rv' says '2.6.16.21-0.25-default #1 Tue Sep
> 19 07:26:15 UTC 2006', all patches duly downloaded and installed;
> using KDE
>
> * infos from YaST/Network Devices/Cisco 340 Series Wireless LAN Adapter:
> Automatic Address Setup (via DHCP)
> Hardware Details:
> Hardware Configuration Name: bus-pcmcia-0.0
> Module Name: airo_cs
> (that is what it came up with at the installation of Suse)
> DHCP Options: Hostname to Send: AUTO
>
>
> Symptoms:
>
> * under Suse Linux, I cannot get wireless connection to local WLAN;
> KWiFiManager shows excelent signal strength, KNetworkManager shows that
> the little blue progress bar for the connection process stops at about
> 2/3 of full length, SSID of local unincrypted WLAN is recognized in both
> cases
>
> * output from...
>
>
>># ifconfig eth1
>
> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:96:44:9F:C7
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:2036 errors:463 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:463
> TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:145412 (142.0 Kb) TX bytes:78 (78.0 b)
> Interrupt:4 Base address:0x4100
>
>
>># iwconfig eth1
>
> eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"<local_wlan_id>"
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:24:C8:9B:60
> Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity=0/65535
> Retry limit:16 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Encryption key:off
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality=48/100 Signal level=-72 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:3 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:466 Missed beacon:0
>
> * same card used to work under Suse 9.1
>
> * under Windows XP wireless connection looks okay
>
>
>
>
>>Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:32:21 +0800
>>From: Werner <werda@netfront.net>
>>
>>
>>starl8gazer@yahoo.com wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>Could anyone please help me out in the following problem?
>>>
>>>[...]
>>>
>>>In you reply, please be specific as I am not a Linux expert at all.
>>>
>>>Thank you for your time and help,
>>>
>>>Starl8gazer
>>
>>That sounds like the radio part is ok.
>>We need to know a little bit more, though.
>>Presumably you have configured an IP address/netmask or is it DHCP?
>>What does iwconfig eth1 (I'm blindly assuming eth0 is the ethernet port
>>and eth1 is the wireless port) say?
>>Are you using WEP?
>>
>>Werner
>>
Hi,
Can you ping anything?  |