Re: Mint and wireless networking

Pete Holsberg keyed the following on 6/7/2007 11:25 AM:
Just for fun (this is a hobby, after all!), I decided to install Linux
Mint 3.0 Cassandra to see how it handled my wireless card.

At first it didn't recognize it but I found the Admin tool for
installing Windows drivers, and then lspci showed the card as a Marvell
88e8335 which I knew to be correct from my Kubuntu installation.

I went to Network Tools and found two wireless devices, wlan0 and
wlan0:avahi. Attempting to configure the first, I noted that it saw my
wireless network and my neighbor's. I set in the WEP password, set it
for DHCP and went to try a ping to my router.

No joy!! What have I forgotten about?

Additional information. Network Tools has a status panel for each
device. Under wlan0, all the vales were "not available". Under
wlan0:avahi, everything had a value -- even the hardware address!
However, the values were not related to my network (eg., wrong IP
address) and when I clicked on Configure, it said "Interface does not
exist".

I'm puzzled.

Thanks for your guidance.

I ran miniWifi.py and got the following:

mrv8000c : driver installed
device (11AB:1FAA) present
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Sensitivity=-200 dBm
RTS thr=2346 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 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

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:DB:B5:C7:66
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)
Interrupt:16

eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:DB:B5:C7:66
inet addr:169.254.8.251 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:16

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4205 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4205 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:341456 (333.4 KiB) TX bytes:341456 (333.4 KiB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:E7:1B:09:49
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:79 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6874 (6.7 KiB) TX bytes:3933 (3.8 KiB)
Interrupt:17 Memory:fe9f0000-fea00000

wlan0:ava Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:E7:1B:09:49
inet addr:169.254.3.201 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:17 Memory:fe9f0000-fea00000

There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 13699
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:18:e7:1b:09:49
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:18:e7:1b:09:49
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0b:db:b5:c7:66
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0b:db:b5:c7:66
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
send_packet: Network is down
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
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* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...




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