Hi all,
I've been stuck for a few days trying to connect my computer to a wireless
network.
Context:
PC: quad core + MB based on intel P45 chipset +Nvidia PCI GC + 1 PCI
wireless network controller
The PCI network controller is a RaLink RT2561/RT61 (I previously used this
card under Lenny on a 32bit compute and it worked out of the box!)
p...@galipette:~$ lspci
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
05:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
OS is a fresh install of Lenny AMD64 version.
Problem: I get a "classical" error message but can't get rid of it.
galipette:/home/pije# ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
The SIOCSIFFLAGS is referred to in the notes man ifconfig and seems to
relate to IRQ errors.
Knowing that, I changed the Wireless controller of PCI slot... but nothing
better.
Knowing that, I modified the IRQ number dedicated to the corresponding to
the PCI device in the bios setup ... but there again nothing.
At this point I'll be glad to get any advice.
p...@galipette:~$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
0: 37 6 4 8 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 1 0 1 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
4: 0 1 0 1 IO-APIC-edge
6: 2 0 2 1 IO-APIC-edge
floppy
7: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge
parport0
8: 0 1 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 0 1 1 2 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 4274 4265 4288 4287 IO-APIC-edge
ata_piix
15: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge
ata_piix
16: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi
uhci_hcd:usb1, ide0, ide1
18: 1346 1361 1354 1384 IO-APIC-fasteoi
uhci_hcd:usb3, ehci_hcd:usb4, uhci_hcd:usb7
19: 4931 4948 4891 4891 IO-APIC-fasteoi
uhci_hcd:usb6, ahci, ata_piix
21: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi
uhci_hcd:usb2
22: 10060 9992 10123 10028 IO-APIC-fasteoi HDA
Intel
23: 36751 36840 36731 36810 IO-APIC-fasteoi
uhci_hcd:usb5, ehci_hcd:usb8, ohci1394
1275: 941 896 916 899 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
NMI: 0 0 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 214978 300313 238346 241260 Local timer interrupts
RES: 41691 28460 17427 33877 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 200 270 256 222 function call interrupts
TLB: 1181 1173 1667 1860 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
SPU: 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts
ERR: 0
By the way could someone identify my wireless card from the above output ?
Is it possible that the device appears in lspci outputs although it would be
under an IRQ conflict ?
My network configuration file: /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0
# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
# The wireless network interface
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid essid "Freesbee"
wireless-key XXXXXXXXXX
and the output of iwconfig
galipette:/home/pije# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"essid "Freesbee""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:2619-EBCD-4C
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
Any idea to force an access point if possible ?
Any suggestion will be gladly considered.
that's all folk
