Re: Need a little help with my network configuration

On Monday 11 June 2007 15:50, Celejar wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:06:17 +0200

Chris <list.hurschler@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 01:54, Celejar wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 16:34:48 +0200

Chris <list.hurschler@xxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

I have a box with a usb-nic which uses the zd1211rw module. The box
is dist-upgraded to the testing level. I can connect to the router
using network-manager and from kde with network-manager-kde just
fine.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"cjwlan" Nickname:"zd1211"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point:
00:04:0E:96:0F:37 Bit Rate=11 Mb/s
Encryption key: XXXXXXX Security mode:open
Link Quality=34/100 Signal level=28/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Every time I boot, I have to re-enter the passphrase again, but I
want it to

What sort of passphrase? What security protocol (WEP, WPA, WPA2, etc)
are you using? What does ifconfig show when you boot before you enter
the passphrase?

I'm using WEP and entering the passphrase as hex in network-manager-kde.
If I boot with:

cat /etc/network/interfaces >>

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
# allow-hotplug eth0
# iface eth0 inet dhcp

Then:

ifconfig >>

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:A5:F7:26:6A
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:72:56:84:A9
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:4368 (4.2 KiB)

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:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:732 (732.0 b) TX bytes:732 (732.0 b)



After I log in as user and enter the passphrase in network-manager-kde:

ifconfig >>

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:A5:F7:26:6A
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:72:56:84:A9
inet addr:192.168.178.27 Bcast:192.168.178.255
Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::202:72ff:fe56:84a9/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3570 errors:0 dropped:43 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2092 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4986730 (4.7 MiB) TX bytes:130461 (127.4 KiB)

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:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3700 (3.6 KiB) TX bytes:3700 (3.6 KiB)

iwconfig >>

eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"essid" Nickname:"zd1211"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point:
00:04:0E:96:0F:37 Bit Rate=11 Mb/s
Encryption key:"passphrase" Security mode:open
Link Quality=99/100 Signal level=32/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

And everything is ok. The interface as such works, but I'm having trouble
getting eth1 up automatically either:

1) using network-manager which should actually automatically do it, but
always askes for the passpharse instead; or

2) by having eth1 start from auto eth1 in /etc/network/interfaces which
fails either statically or dhcp, why I don't know.

Thanks for any suggestions. I need to be able to have this box come up
and attach to the network over eth1 without any intervention.

Chris

connect automatically at boot. I tried to set up an interface
in /etc/network/interfaces (I don't really need network-manager).
But I can't for the life of me get it working! Here is my
/etc/network/interfaces:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
# allow-hotplug eth0
# iface eth0 inet dhcp

iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless_keymode restricted
wireless_key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
wireless_essid XXXXXXXXX

Any suggestions on either getting network-manager-kde to remember the
passphrase, OR getting my normal network/interfaces working would be
really, really appreciated.

Thanks,

Chris

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If the WEP password is specified in 'interfaces', then 'ifup eth1' or
'auto eth1' in 'interfaces' should bring it up. What error do you get?
When it fails, what do 'ifconfig' and 'iwconfig' say?

I found an error in dmesg about negotiating encryption, googled a bit and got
it to work by using "wireless_keymode open". The thing that got me stuck was
that "wireless_keymode restricted" worked on another computer with a
different nic, so I didn't consider it a problem.

The interface comes up on boot now with auto eth1, and everything works fine.

Thanks,

Chris


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