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Hello there, I'm a new arch user and I'm having trouble setting up the wireless on my laptop. I followed the guidelines on the wiki but it still doesn't work, so I would appreciate it if someone could help.
I disabled the router's protection, so I know it has nothing to do with that.
Wireless: ipw2100
I installed wireless_tools and the ipw2100 firmware.
iwconfig:
eth1 unassociated ESSID:off/any Nickname:"ipw2100"
Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
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
rfkill:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
First, the manual way:
rc.conf:
# Wireless: See network profiles below
#
#Static IP example
#eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
eth0="dhcp"
eth1="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth0 eth1)
#WIRED_INTERFACE="eth0"
# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
# - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
#
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)
###
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus network netfs crond !net-auto-wired alsa)
ifconfig eth1 up
iwconfig eth1 essid "BELL952"
iwconfig eth1
eth1 unassociated ESSID:"BELL952" Nickname:"ipw2100"
Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
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
Note that it says unassociated. I'm not sure if this is normal...
dhcpcd eth1
dhcpcd[2056]: version 5.2.9 starting
dhcpcd[2056]: eth1: broadcasting for a lease
dhcpcd[2056]: timed out
iwconfig eth1 channel auto
Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
I also tried wicd, it blocks at the "Obtaining IP address" step.
rc.conf:
# Wireless: See network profiles below
#
#Static IP example
#eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
eth0="dhcp"
eth1="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(!eth0 !eth1)
#WIRED_INTERFACE="eth0"
# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
# - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
#
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)
####
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus wicd !network netfs crond !net-auto-wired alsa)
wicd.log:
2011/01/13 11:07:39 :: Autoconnecting...
2011/01/13 11:07:39 :: No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network
2011/01/13 11:07:39 :: Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect
2011/01/13 11:09:30 :: setting use global dns to 0
2011/01/13 11:09:30 :: setting global dns
2011/01/13 11:09:30 :: global dns servers are
2011/01/13 11:09:30 :: domain is
2011/01/13 11:09:30 :: search domain is
2011/01/13 11:09:30 :: setting wireless interface eth1
2011/01/13 11:09:30 :: setting wired interface eth0
2011/01/13 11:09:30 :: setting wpa driver wext
2011/01/13 11:09:30 :: setting automatically reconnect when connection drops 1
2011/01/13 11:09:30 :: setting backend to external
2011/01/13 11:09:30 :: Setting dhcp client to 0
2011/01/13 11:09:32 :: Connecting to wireless network BELL952
2011/01/13 11:09:33 :: Putting interface down
2011/01/13 11:09:33 :: Releasing DHCP leases...
2011/01/13 11:09:33 :: Setting false IP...
2011/01/13 11:09:33 :: Stopping wpa_supplicant
2011/01/13 11:09:33 :: Flushing the routing table...
2011/01/13 11:09:33 :: Putting interface up...
2011/01/13 11:09:35 :: Running DHCP with hostname arch
2011/01/13 11:09:35 :: dhcpcd[2380]: version 5.2.9 starting
2011/01/13 11:09:35 ::
2011/01/13 11:09:35 :: dhcpcd[2380]: eth1: broadcasting for a lease
2011/01/13 11:09:35 ::
2011/01/13 11:10:05 :: dhcpcd[2380]: timed out
2011/01/13 11:10:05 ::
2011/01/13 11:10:05 :: DHCP connection failed
2011/01/13 11:10:05 :: exiting connection thread
2011/01/13 11:10:09 :: Sending connection attempt result dhcp_failed
I hope I gave enough information, thanks in advance!
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I think you've got your iwconfig and ifconfig commands the wrong way around. Configure your wireless with iwconfig and then bring the interface up with ifconfig. Then dhcp as you have been trying to do.
Note that your output from iwconfig eth1 was all wrong (lots of zeros:)), nothing was going work after that.
iwconfig eth1
eth1 unassociated ESSID:"BELL952" Nickname:"ipw2100" Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off 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
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Try reloading the ipw2100 module.
Just how did you install the firmware btw?
Evil #archlinux@libera.chat channel op and general support dude.
. files on github, Screenshots, Random pics and the rest
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Thanks for the answers!
JamesKitson: Yeah, I think that's where the problem comes from. Concerning the commands, I followed the steps on the wiki, so I think they are correct.
Mr.Elending: I installed the firmware with pacman -S ipw2100-fw, a query to the local database shows that it is properly installed.
I reloaded the module with:
rmmod ipw2100 (the led indicator turned off)
modprobe ipw2100 (the led turns on)
And redid the steps, but with still the same results.
On the wiki they say something about the radiotape interface. I don't know what that is, but I tried to enable it:
modprobe ipw2100 rtap_iface=1
FATAL: Error inserting ipw2100 (/lib/modules/2.6.36-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
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