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From: Seb on 31 Mar 2010 20:40 Hello all! I just aquired an IBM Thinkpad X31 laptop and have to work out the wireless (amongst other things). The firmware (firmware-ipw2x00) and drivers are installed and working (I think). dojo:~# lspci | grep -i wireless 02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04) I'm using wicd from the lenny-backports since I had very good experiences with wicd on my other machines. However, if I try and connect to my wireless - WPA-TKIP, Mixed mode (B and G) - I keep getting the message: "Connection failed: Could not contact the wireless access point." I'm positive the WAP is up and running since I'm writing this here from my other machine through it. Syslog contains some dhclient messages that look like this: 00:57:52 dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth2/00:04:23:96:55:2a 00:57:52 dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth2/00:04:23:96:55:2a 00:57:52 dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback And that's all that sticks out to me... Any hints/tips/clues much appreciated, let me know if you need any more info. TIA, Sebi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100401003133.GA10904(a)herbx.tri
From: David Parker on 31 Mar 2010 22:00 Whoops. > /sbin/iwscan list Sorry, that command should be: /sbin/iwlist scan - Dave
From: David Parker on 31 Mar 2010 22:50 ----- Original Message ----- From: Seb <levi.vibes(a)gmail.com> Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 8:32 pm Subject: connecting to WPA wireless network with ipw2100 To: debian-user(a)lists.debian.org > Hello all! > > I just aquired an IBM Thinkpad X31 laptop and have to work out the > wireless (amongst other things). The firmware (firmware-ipw2x00) and > drivers are installed and working (I think). > > dojo:~# lspci | grep -i wireless > 02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN > 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04) > > I'm using wicd from the lenny-backports since I had very good > experiences with wicd on my other machines. However, if I try and > connect to my wireless - WPA-TKIP, Mixed mode (B and G) - I keep > getting the message: "Connection failed: Could not contact the > wireless access point." I'm positive the WAP is up and running since > I'm writing this here from my other machine through it. > > Syslog contains some dhclient messages that look like this: > > 00:57:52 dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth2/00:04:23:96:55:2a > 00:57:52 dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth2/00:04:23:96:55:2a > 00:57:52 dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback > > And that's all that sticks out to me... > > Any hints/tips/clues much appreciated, let me know if you need any > more info. > > TIA, Sebi > Hello, Proving that your wireless card can communicate with your access point would be a good first step. You can see if your card is picking up the access point by installing the wireless-tools package and then running this command: /sbin/iwscan list You should see information about every access point within an acceptable range of your laptop. If your access point shows up, then at least you know that it is not a driver problem. If it does not show up, or if you can't even get iwscan to work, then you might have a driver problem or some bad hardware. I have a laptop with an Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG wireless card and it works fine on my WPA-TKIP wireless network using the ipw2200 driver. (AP is a Linksys WAP54G). Hope this helps. - Dave
From: Greg Madden on 1 Apr 2010 05:10 On Wednesday 31 March 2010 04:31:33 pm Seb wrote: > Hello all! > > I just aquired an IBM Thinkpad X31 laptop and have to work out the > wireless (amongst other things). The firmware (firmware-ipw2x00) and > drivers are installed and working (I think). > > dojo:~# lspci | grep -i wireless > 02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini > PCI Adapter (rev 04) > > I'm using wicd from the lenny-backports since I had very good > experiences with wicd on my other machines. However, if I try and > connect to my wireless - WPA-TKIP, Mixed mode (B and G) - I keep > getting the message: "Connection failed: Could not contact the > wireless access point." I'm positive the WAP is up and running since > I'm writing this here from my other machine through it. > > Syslog contains some dhclient messages that look like this: > > 00:57:52 dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth2/00:04:23:96:55:2a > 00:57:52 dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth2/00:04:23:96:55:2a > 00:57:52 dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback > > And that's all that sticks out to me... > > Any hints/tips/clues much appreciated, let me know if you need any > more info. > > TIA, Sebi if you read the output from'dmesg', grep for 'ipw211' you should see if the firmware loaded. Mine hear fails to load same mini pci card. If the drivers and firmware get loaded for a wireless nic card you will see an interface using 'iwconfig'. If you don't see an interface you can't use the wirelesss-tools commands. 'iwlist <interface> scan', ...etc. i had trouble with getting WAP to work, but MAC filtering worked. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003312335.54802.gomadtroll(a)acsalaska.net
From: Seb on 1 Apr 2010 08:50
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 01:31AM +0100, Seb wrote: > Hello all! > > I just aquired an IBM Thinkpad X31 laptop and have to work out the > wireless (amongst other things). The firmware (firmware-ipw2x00) and > drivers are installed and working (I think). > I got some more clues by setting my Wireless Access Point to unsecured mode for a test and succeeded in connecting to it without any problems. So it's a WPA issue. So at least I know that now (and I know that the firmware and drivers are loaded and working). Does the chipset need to have built-in support WPA for it to work or does it only depend on the configuration of wpasupplicant et al, I wonder? I'm running Linux 2.6.26-2-686 by the way. Gonna compile a custom kernel for this machine though using the 2.6.32 kernel from backports. Any tests/hints appreciated... TIA, Sebi -- There are two problems with a major hangover. You feel like you are going to die and you're afraid that you won't. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100401124103.GA3971(a)herbx.tri |