Re: can't connect to wireless router with F7

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
the scenario:

* linksys WRT45GL (WAP with 4 wired ports)
* dell inspiron 9200 with linksys pcmcia card

i've used this pcmcia card successfully with linksys routers for a
long time, and i just installed one of the above routers in the home
of a friend. both of their windows systems (vista and XP) connected
flawlessly, but now my inspiron can't connect.

previously, under FC6, in this situation, i would go into the
network administration dialog, delete the wired entry and create a new
wireless entry, which would also be labelled as "eth0". never had a
problem, at least under FC6.

now, with F7, trying this for the first time, i get these new
interface entries:

# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

wifi0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"porthos"
Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Master Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:06:25:0B:84:25
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:xxxxxxxxxx Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"porthos" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Master Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:06:25:0B:84:25
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:xxxxxxxxxx Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:11306 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:24 Invalid misc:51846 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.


# ifconfig
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:3292 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3292 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:18159745 (17.3 MiB) TX bytes:18159745 (17.3 MiB)

wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-06-25-0B-84-25-08-DF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:289538 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1025 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:7111118 (6.7 MiB) TX bytes:207248 (202.3 KiB)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0xe100

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:25:0B:84:25
inet6 addr: fe80::206:25ff:fe0b:8425/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:940 errors:0 dropped:288569 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:981 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:167658 (163.7 KiB) TX bytes:198076 (193.4 KiB)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0xe100

and any attempt to run "service network start" just hangs.

is there a new incantation i need for this to work under F7?
thanks.

rday

p.s. the WRT54GL is specifically listed as a wireless "G", but it's
been configured to auto-select the speed. i'm assuming it's not
something as simple as a speed mismatch.


It looks to me like you are using the "madwifi" driver. Is
that correct? If you're not sure, I can suggest some ways
to check. If you're using some other WLAN driver, the
following is not applicable.

Are you using WEP or WPA for the security mode? I am at work,
not at home, so I can't check the model of my Linksys router.
But I know that with it and the MadWifi driver, the last time I
tried WPA security, I could not get it to work. However, WEP
security (much weaker security, of course) did work.

If you are using WPA, just to verify that this is the problem, you
might try TEMPORARILY switching to WEP. If it then works, you
have the above problem.

Unfortunately, I didn't have the time to investigate this problem
further.

You might be able to find more information on the problem at:
http://madwifi.org/

Good luck. Do let us know if you resolve the problem.

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