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Stringer

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Registered: 2010-10-25

Posts: 44

Wireless connection Timeout

After the school changed the wired connection to wireless only and since I haven't configured the wirless in forhand - so I did it around 1 week ago.

The connect is:

         Cell 51 - Address: 00:24:6C:23:23:F8
                    Channel:132
                    Frequency:5.66 GHz (Channel 132)
                    Quality=37/70  Signal level=-73 dBm  
                    Encryption key:off
                    ESSID:"school"
                    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=0000003d65be34b8
                    Extra: Last beacon: 836ms ago
                    IE: Unknown: 00074A424775657374
                    IE: Unknown: 01088C129824B048606C
                    IE: Unknown: 030184
                    IE: Unknown: 2D1A4E001BFFFF000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
                    IE: Unknown: 3D16840508000000FF000000000000000000000000000000
                    IE: Unknown: DD1E00904C334E001BFFFF000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
                    IE: Unknown: DD1A00904C34840508000000FF000000000000000000000000000000
                    IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
                    IE: Unknown: DD0A00037F04010000000000

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abg  ESSID:"school"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:24:6C:23:01:70   
          Bit Rate=5.5 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=65/70  Signal level=-45 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Then I do (with sudo - of course):
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed (tried with Ad but that one might be some trouble maker)
iwconfig wlan0 channel auto
iwconfig wlan0 essid school

then when I see that the essid on wlan0 is school I try:
dhcpcd wlan0
where it will say timeout.

*Note: I'm currently on Ubuntu LiveCD where wireless connection works  - the outputs are from Ubunutu but gives the same on Archlinux.
Also they use arubanetwork.

calef13

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Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 142

Re: Wireless connection Timeout

If you are getting exactly the same problem in 2 different distros, that points to the problem being with the wireless router. Have you maybe got MAC address filtering turned on? Are you sure you are in range of the router? Can your wireless card connect to other networks?

Stringer

Member

Registered: 2010-10-25

Posts: 44

Re: Wireless connection Timeout

Well after hand they did have an mac filter on but I could get into the network but not get an ip on archlinux.

DarkAdmiral

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 6

Re: Wireless connection Timeout

I often have problem getting IPs from dhcp. It seems a linux hardware related problem, but I couldn't constrict the problem any further.
Try using a static IP, if possible?!

unilx

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From: Fredericton,Canada

Registered: 2009-10-01

Posts: 183

Re: Wireless connection Timeout

Any time I've had timeout errors it was due to my configuration.If you haven't already try:
iwconfig wlan0 essid "your essid" key xxxxxxxxxx   without semi-colons if you don't have a encryption key then leave out the key part.I'm assuming your using "wep"
iwconfig wlan0
dhcpcd wlan0

this should work as long as your drivers are installed properly
ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper-utils
wireless_tools
ucode example:iwlwifi-5150-ucode
driver example rt2x00pci-rt61pci

Last edited by unilx (2011-02-28 23:59:26)