On 23 Jun 2011, William Hopkins wrote:
> On 06/22/11 at 10:35pm, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > I'm trying to set up wireless on a Thinkpad T41. I'm using the ath5K
> > module and this brings up wlan0 as expected. I fiddled all day with
> > /etc/network/interfaces with no luck. I then tried wicd and this does
> > show my router, but it won't connect. Are there any tweaks that may make
> > it connect?
> >
> > The router does not have encryption but broadcast of its essid is
> > disabled. This does not prevent wicd from seeing it.
>
> I don't use wicd, so I can't speak to that. You can try to connect directly as
> follows for testing, though:
>
> iwconfig wlan0 scan //look for your network
> iwconfig wlan0 essid ${ESSID} key "s:your_passphrase" //associate to your
> network with WEP
> dhclient wlan0
>
> then see what you've got. Normal network troubleshooting applies.. listen for
> traffic, try pinging your router, check your routing table and netmask, etc.
> etc.
>
>
> --
> Liam
The strange thing is that wlan0 *does* appear to connect but it doesn't
actually work. Here is the result of iwconfig:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:"My Router"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:19:5B:3B:E7:6C
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=57/70 Signal level=-53 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Anthony
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