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rsamurti

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From: Mysuru, India

Registered: 2006-11-30

Posts: 29

Wireless connection problem on HP Pavilion dv6 laptop.

Hello,

I am not able to connect to wireless network on my HP Pavilion dv6 laptop. These are the details:

#lspci | grep -i net
0a:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
0b:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 07)

As suggested in the installation manual, I did

#ip link set wlan0 up

iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 80:A1:D7:77:A0:0C
                    Channel:1
                    Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
                    Quality=70/70  Signal level=-186 dBm  
                    Encryption key:on
                    ESSID:"rsamurti"
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
                    Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
                              36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Mode:Master
                    Extra:tsf=000000103e620329
                    Extra: Last beacon: 43ms ago
                    IE: Unknown: 00087273616D75727469
                    IE: Unknown: 010482848B96
                    IE: Unknown: 030101
                    IE: Unknown: 2A0104
                    IE: Unknown: 32080C1218243048606C

After this, I did

#wpa_passphrase rsamurti "9342184386" /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
network={
    ssid="rsamurti"
    #psk="9342184386"
    psk=6a0f053f4201457ef91abeff4f72e58cbaeabebc8a0b9730c3a70617f7c09f17
}

Then,

#wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

After waiting for more than 10 seconds,

#iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=19 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off

As you can notice, the access point is not associated. So, I am not able to connect to this access point. But the same wireless network works perfectly on Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04

Thanks in advance for any help.

Anand

Last edited by rsamurti (2012-08-03 14:58:08)

Hspasta

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Registered: 2011-12-24

Posts: 189

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Re: Wireless connection problem on HP Pavilion dv6 laptop.

You are forgetting the pipe

>>

in your wpa_passphrase call. It shoud look like this:

# wpa_passphrase "rsamurti" "9342184386" >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

Inxsible

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Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: Wireless connection problem on HP Pavilion dv6 laptop.

rsamurti, please use [ code ] tags when pasting snippets. You have been here long enough to know the forum rules. Edit your post and add the tags.

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rsamurti

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From: Mysuru, India

Registered: 2006-11-30

Posts: 29

Re: Wireless connection problem on HP Pavilion dv6 laptop.

Hi Inxsible

Thank you for reminding me about code tagging. I was absent in these forums for a long time. So, I had forgotten this. Please excuse. I have edited my first post putting code tags. I hope my editing is alright.

Anand

Last edited by rsamurti (2012-08-03 15:02:10)

rsamurti

Member

From: Mysuru, India

Registered: 2006-11-30

Posts: 29

Re: Wireless connection problem on HP Pavilion dv6 laptop.

Hi Hspasta,

You are forgetting the pipe

>>

in your wpa_passphrase call. It shoud look like this:

# wpa_passphrase "rsamurti" "9342184386" >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

I corrected as you mentioned above. Still the same problem continues.

Anand

rsamurti

Member

From: Mysuru, India

Registered: 2006-11-30

Posts: 29

Re: Wireless connection problem on HP Pavilion dv6 laptop.

Hello,

In the new ISO image dated 20120907 wireless problem is solved. I had to run simply wifi-menu to get list of wifi access points detected.

Anand