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STiAT

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2004-12-23

Posts: 606

WLAN problem

Hello everybody. I first had this on the kernel boards, but finally decided since it's rather a configuration problem than a problem with the modules themselves to put it in here - at networking issues.

I've a card, which already ran with the madwifi driver once.
The problem is: The access point is found, i find the access point, but i definitely don't get an ip. Statically setting the ip won't work as well.
I think it's a problem with the encryption key, since while trying to get an ip address, i can't see anything that would show i'm trying to use an encryption key...

wireless config (the key is just replaced with x, there is the right key in)

wlan_ath0="ath0 mode managed essid lixinet key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
WLAN_INTERFACES=(ath0)

in rc.conf

ath0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(lo eth0 ath0)

- The card is configured:

wifi0     no wireless extensions.

ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"lixinet"  Nickname:""
          Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/94  Signal level=-95 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

i can find the access point

Cell 01 - Address: 00:17:9A:46:A4:2D
                    ESSID:"lixinet"
                    Mode:Master
                    Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
                    Quality=33/94  Signal level=-62 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
                              9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:wme_ie=dd070050f20200010

while i do dhcpcd ath0 or sudo /etc/rc.d/network restart

ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:95:BB:24:46
          inet6 addr: fe80::211:95ff:febb:2446/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:163 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:8618 (8.4 Kb)  TX bytes:6600 (6.4 Kb)
ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"lixinet"  Nickname:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: 00:17:9A:46:A4:2D
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=35/94  Signal level=-60 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
          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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