[SOLVED] AR9170 Not Associating with Access Point

Julius2 · 2010-11-12 22:03:01

I'm using a D-Link DWA-160-A2 wireless adapter USB dongle with the AR9170 chipset. Using kernel 2.6.36, I can see the device (wlan0), scan with it, and even associate it with an essid using 'iwconfig wlan0 essid <network>'. However, dhcpcd times out due to the fact that it isn't associated with any access point.
Here is my iwconfig output:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn   ESSID:"<network>"
                      Mode:Managed   Access Point: Not-Associated    Tx-Power=20 dBm
                      Retry long limit:7    RTS thr:off    Fragment  thr:off
                      Encryption key:off
                      Power Management:off

I'm really stumped and any help or advice is welcome.

Last edited by Julius2 (2010-11-17 14:30:05)

fphillips · 2010-11-13 06:07:40

This is probably an encryption issue. Yes, you can stick an essid to it without associating if you don't feed all the correct parameters. Case in point:

[fp@viron ~]$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid foo
[fp@viron ~]$ iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     IEEE 802.11abg  ESSID:"foo"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=14 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

(There is no such named AP around here.)

Julius2 · 2010-11-13 16:08:30

The network I was trying to connect to was unencrypted.

cesura · 2010-11-14 02:52:05

Check:

lspci -vv

just to make sure the correct module is loaded.

Also, make sure there is nothing suspicious in dmesg.

Julius2 · 2010-11-14 16:56:35

The adapter, as I mentioned before, is a USB dongle and does not show up in lspci (it shows up in lsusb instead.)

Regardless of this, I installed wicd and it seems to do something that a manual connection was not, so I suppose the problem is, if not solved, at least avoided.

EDIT: Using Wicd, I was able to connect. I am going to mark this as solved.

Last edited by Julius2 (2010-11-17 14:29:47)

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#1 2010-11-12 22:03:01

[SOLVED] AR9170 Not Associating with Access Point

#2 2010-11-13 06:07:40

Re: [SOLVED] AR9170 Not Associating with Access Point

#3 2010-11-13 16:08:30

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