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Hello,
My wireless card works perfectly (actually I am using ndiswrapper, but anyway) on Arch and I can connect to my home wireless network. I use iwconfig to connect.
In my office we have a wireless network. It's essid is "default" and it uses WEP. I can connect to it using Windows, but not using Arch. Im running the following commands:
iwconfig wlan0 essid "default" key XXXXXXXXXX
dhcpcd wlan0and it doesn't connect ("waiting for carrier..." and nothing happens)
I guess the problem is that there is another network with the same essid - "default". I've tried to manually associate my card with my office network AP using iwconfig wlan0 ap XX:XX:XX:XX:XX, but it didn't work either.
What should I do?
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Probably the easiest way to solve this would be to make sure you have a essid that is unique and not 'default'. That would really solve the problem since it will only see that one essid.
Is that possible with any of the routers at work? (I know the question sounds stupid but I just want to get it out of the way)
And, if you did a "sudo iwlist wlan0 scan", do you get a strong signal for any of the routers at your work?
When you do the commands:
iwconfig wlan0 essid "default" key XXXXXXXXXX
dhcpcd wlan0Do you complete them as root or use sudo?
Last edited by ruffedgz (2009-11-20 21:59:04)
Arch linux i686 | Dell XPS m1530 | Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz | 3 GB RAM | 250GB HDD
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Yes, I get a strong signal from it, I am connected on it using Windows with signal strength: "EXCELENT"
The problem is that I can't change the network name because I do not own it. I have only access to it.
(I am also trying to connect as root)
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I've just tried to remove the ndiswrapper module and install the old ath5k module and it worked. This is weird, because I've changed to ndiswrapper because I couldn't connect to my home network using ath5k. So, I guess I am still looking for a decent driver for my card.
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What kind of Wireless card do you have and what does it say when you do a lspci? So for me, I know I have a Broadcom and the way I found it was to do:
lspci | grep BCM4312 (or whatever wireless make/model you have)or
lspci | grep "Network Controller"The second option should also get it for you. From there, you can check out this list to see if that might help you with drivers (but then again, you might have known this already so...).
Hope this helps.
Last edited by ruffedgz (2009-11-23 21:03:42)
Arch linux i686 | Dell XPS m1530 | Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz | 3 GB RAM | 250GB HDD
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