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MrSpecial

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From: Baltimore, Maryland

Registered: 2011-05-03

Posts: 7

Can't Connect to Wireless Network

Using my broadcom (wl driver) wireless network adapter, I am unable to connect to my network at home. However, I can connect at school just fine. Both networks have no security present. I've looked at my home router's settings, and security is definately disabled. However, running the command:

iwconfig eth0 essid 'belkin54g'

does not connect my laptop to the network. I've tried using netcfg but I end up getting the message

WPA Authentication/Assocation failed

I've reset my router, restored to its default settings, with no luck. I believe I have security disabled in my network profile:

CONNECTION='wireless'
DESCRIPTION='Wireless Home Network'
INTERFACE='eth0'
SECURITY='none'
ESSID='belkin54g'
IP='dhcp'

There are other computers that can wirelessly connect in our house.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,804

Re: Can't Connect to Wireless Network

can you post the output of iwlist scan

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MrSpecial

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From: Baltimore, Maryland

Registered: 2011-05-03

Posts: 7

Re: Can't Connect to Wireless Network

Yeah, it returns:

lo      Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0     Failed to read scan data : Invalid argument
eth1     Interface doesn't support scanning.

ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 1,718

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Re: Can't Connect to Wireless Network

Usually the wifi cards are wlan0 instead of eth0 or eth1.
Try this:

1. "ifconfig wlan0 up"
2. then "iwlist scan"

perhaps you will get some results.

R.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,804

Re: Can't Connect to Wireless Network

Ouch.

How about the output of
iwconfig 
without any arguments ??

Also, do you have rfkill installed?  What is the output of rfkill list   ??

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MrSpecial

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From: Baltimore, Maryland

Registered: 2011-05-03

Posts: 7

Re: Can't Connect to Wireless Network

Using ifconfig wlan0 up prints an error about not finding that interface. I remember reading somewhere that this is normal for broadcom adapters to use eth interfaces. iwconfig prints:

eth0     IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"" Nickname:""
         Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
         Bit Rate: 11 Mb/s Tx-Power: 24 dBm
         Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
         Power Managentmode:All packets received
         Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=-57 dBm
         Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
         Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

I installed rfkill and here's my output:

0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
          Soft blocked: no
          Hard blocked: no