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Using my broadcom (wl driver) wireless network adapter, I am unable to connect to my network at home. However, I can connect at school just fine. Both networks have no security present. I've looked at my home router's settings, and security is definately disabled. However, running the command:
iwconfig eth0 essid 'belkin54g'
does not connect my laptop to the network. I've tried using netcfg but I end up getting the message
WPA Authentication/Assocation failed
I've reset my router, restored to its default settings, with no luck. I believe I have security disabled in my network profile:
CONNECTION='wireless'
DESCRIPTION='Wireless Home Network'
INTERFACE='eth0'
SECURITY='none'
ESSID='belkin54g'
IP='dhcp'
There are other computers that can wirelessly connect in our house.
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can you post the output of iwlist scan
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Yeah, it returns:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Failed to read scan data : Invalid argument
eth1 Interface doesn't support scanning.
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Usually the wifi cards are wlan0 instead of eth0 or eth1.
Try this:
1. "ifconfig wlan0 up"
2. then "iwlist scan"
perhaps you will get some results.
R.
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Ouch.
How about the output of
iwconfig
without any arguments ??
Also, do you have rfkill installed? What is the output of rfkill list ??
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Using ifconfig wlan0 up prints an error about not finding that interface. I remember reading somewhere that this is normal for broadcom adapters to use eth interfaces. iwconfig prints:
eth0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate: 11 Mb/s Tx-Power: 24 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Managentmode:All packets received
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=-57 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
I installed rfkill and here's my output:
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
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