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captainm

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Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 9

[Solved] netcfg Network Unavailable.

Hi,

When trying to connect to a wireless network with netcfg it always fails with 'Network Unavailable'. Everything used to work with network-manager under Gnome.  Lsmod says the iwl3945 module is loaded and iwconfig says;

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"@Home94004"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=27 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B   
          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

iwlist doesn't give any scan results but the XP laptop 10cm away can find the network. Network-manager also used to find the network.

this is my profile;

CONNECTION="wireless"
INTERFACE=wlan0
SCAN="yes"
SECURITY="wpa"
ESSID="@Home94004"
KEY="*********"
IP="dhcp"
TIMEOUT=30

I'd appreciate some pointers on what to check next.

Thanks.

Last edited by captainm (2008-08-18 18:53:18)

monstermudder78

Member

Registered: 2008-05-18

Posts: 120

Re: [Solved] netcfg Network Unavailable.

Is this a new problem?  If so, look through these threads:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=53654
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=53565

captainm

Member

Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 9

Re: [Solved] netcfg Network Unavailable.

Setting scan="no" and moving net-profiles at the end of the line under rc.conf's daemons array did the trick. Thanks!