On Saturday 20 September 2008 17:58:27 Ken Heard wrote: > This laptop has Lenny installed. It has a built in IBM 3945 wireless > card. Once I installed the firmware-iwlwifi package the laptop > recognized this card and allowed me to configure it. While I usually > use a RJ-45 cable connection to connect to networks, I am presently > temporarily located where a wireless connection is more convenient. > > By using KDE's "Network Settings" page, accessible from the KDE control > panel under "Internet & Network", I was at first able to make this > connection in automatic DHCP mode by entering the ESSID and the > hexadecimal WEP key. This arrangement however had its problems. At > first I selected "Network Settings" to activate this connection on boot > up, but it did not work. After switching off this selection I was then > able to establish the connection manually, but had to re-enter the ESSID > and the key -- and select "hexadecimal" for the key instead of ascii" -- > several times in "Network Settings" before I finally would get a > connection. > > This arrangement worked for about a week, but now I am no longer able to > connect no matter what I do. "Ifconfig wlan0" returns the following: > > wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7050" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated > Tx-Power=15 dBm > Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B > Encryption key:4765-6973-6265-7267-7374-7231-37 > 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 > > Both the ESSID and the Encryption key are correct, but Access Point: is > "Not Associated". > > "Iwlist wlan0 scan" returns, in part the following: > > Cell 01 - Address: 00:04:0E:76:FF:46 > ESSID:"FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7050" > Mode:Master > Channel:6 > Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6) > Quality=91/100 Signal level=-40 dBm Noise > level=-127 dBm > Encryption key:on > Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 22 Mb/s > 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s > 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s > Extra:tsf=000000950e6329f5 > > "Ifup wlan" returns "ifup: interface wlan0 already configured". > > These are the same settings I have been using all week, and now they > don't work. I would certainly like to know why, and what to do -- not > only to get the connection working again, but also to be able to > activate it on boot up. > > Regards, > > Ken Heard
I read you use KDE so may I suggest the network-manager-kde package as the solution to almost all the wireless issues? I used to have serious problems before discovering it. I have successfully configured Atheros (don't remember the model number), Broadcom (4318) and Intel (4965 and 3945) wireless cards with WPA2-PSK and little effort. The only thing you have to pay attention to is commenting every line in /etc/network/interfaces except for those regarding the loopback interface. The only drawback is that you cannot configure a static address but only dhcp. Regards, Giuseppe Marinelli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
