On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 10:04:26AM +0000, Ken Heard wrote: > Consequently, for the duration I wanted to replace the aforementioned > D-Link card with a wireless PCMCIA card (SMC model 2853W 802.11g, 2.4 > gH, 54 mbps). Unfortunately, I have so far been unable to connect my > laptop to the wireless LAN in the building. What I did to try to > establish a connection follows. > <lot of snippage> > Iwconfig returned the following: > > lo no wireless extensions. > > irda0 no wireless extensions. > > eth0 NOT READY! ESSID:off/any > Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated > Tx-Power=31 dBm Sensitivity=0/200 > Retry min limit:0 RTS thr=0 B Fragment thr=0 B > Encryption key:ABCD-E123-44 Security mode:restricted > 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 > > sit0 no wireless extensions.
This looks like the card is recognized but I've never used a G card to know if everything is ok. I've only used a orinoco (B card). > <snippage> > Examination of the messages which scrolled by while booting up revealed > the following, which by the way did not appear in the syslog file, or > show in dmesg: > > Configuring network interfaces ... /etc/network/interfaces:10: > misplaced option > ifup: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces" > > Running "ifup eth0" returns the same, with the exception of the text > preceding the elipsis. > > The file /etc/network/interfaces reads as follows: > > 1 # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system > 2 # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). > 3 > 4 # The loopback network interface > 5 auto lo > 6 iface lo inet loopback > 7 > 8 # The primary network interface > 9 allow-hotplug eth0 > 10 address 127.0.0.1 > 11 netmask 255.0.0.0 Line 10 and 11 are not needed, and some bug report is needed, when possible. > 12 iface eth0 inet dhcp > 13 > 14 > 15 auto eth0 > > When I commented out line 10, "ifup eth0" returned the same as above, > with number 11 replacing 10. When I commented out both lines 10 and 11, > "ifup eth0" tried to ping to the network. I did this test while > unconnected; I am sure that if I had been connected the pings would have > received a positive response. > As pinnedped said: some gui tools do strange thing with the /etc/network/interfaces. So using the command line tools is the only reliable way, at least in my experiece. ifconfig, iwconfig, ifup,ifdown and the other iw-tools are what i use untill I find a GUI that works. > With the D-Link card installed ifconfig returns the following: > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:78:00:6D > inet6 addr: fe80::250:baff:fe78:6d/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:6344 (6.1 KiB) > Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300 > This looks fine. > In any event, I can get the D-Link card to connect, even though I have > to open to my user before installing it. On the other hand I cannot > connect with either of the two wireless cards I tried. > > The priority task is to get a wireless connection. I would certainly > appreciate all the help I can get to be able to do so. I would also > like to be able to switch from one card to the other without difficulty, > by obviating the problem mentioned in the proceeding paragraph. You might want to try some 'testing' while we folks find a solution: 1) see if you can ask the other person to try your wifi card in his/her machine to see if that person can get a good result: the card is not defective and works with a linux 2) see if the wifi owner would turn off secutiry (ASCII key) for a small test to see if that help: the card works but the secuirty is not entered correctly HTH > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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