From: Don Doumakes <doumakes@loganet.net>
To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-laptop] Compaq wireless net - really close, need a push
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:16:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <433C59BA.2080407@loganet.net> (raw)
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Still struggling with my wireless configuration. I'm working with a
known good wireless card, and a known good wireless access point. I can
detect the access point but I just can't get an IP address via DHCP.
Can someone suggest a direction to go from here?
I've got all encryption turned off for now. The syslog contains
"Setting SW wep key" which looks wrong to me.
Compaq Armada 7800
Netgear PCMCIA wireless card, MA521 (RealTek 8190 chipset)
Gentoo Linux from 2005.1 liveCD
kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r6
wireless-tools version 27
rtl8180 version 0.21-r1
This are the commands I'm running. Some of these may be unnecessary
(don't really know what I'm doing).
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 channel 6
iwconfig wlan0 essid default
/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start
This is the output in the terminal window when I run the commands listed
above:
Starting wlan0
Configuring wireless network for wlan0
wlan0 connected to "default" at F8:BF:80:C6:F7:B7
in auto mode (WEP disabled)
Bringing up wlan0
Configuration not set for wlan0 - assuming dhcp
dhcp
Running dhcpcd ...
(times out, even when I increase the timeout to 60 sec)
This is an excerpt of the syslog:
Sep 29 14:56:07 [kernel] rtl8180: Bringing up iface
Sep 29 14:56:07 [kernel] rtl8180: Card successfully reset
Sep 29 14:56:08 [kernel] rtl8180: Configuring CARDBUS registers
Sep 29 14:56:12 [kernel] rtl8180: Setting SW wep key
Sep 29 14:56:12 [kernel] rtl8180: Bringing up iface
Sep 29 14:56:12 [kernel] rtl8180: Card successfully reset
Sep 29 14:56:12 [kernel] rtl8180: Configuring CARDBUS registers
Sep 29 14:56:13 [kernel] rtl8180: Bringing up iface
Sep 29 14:56:13 [kernel] rtl8180: Card successfully reset
Sep 29 14:56:13 [kernel] rtl8180: Configuring CARDBUS registers
Sep 29 14:56:13 [kernel] rtl8180: Bringing up iface
Sep 29 14:56:14 [kernel] rtl8180: Card successfully reset
Sep 29 14:56:14 [kernel] rtl8180: Configuring CARDBUS registers
Sep 29 14:56:15 [kernel] rtl8180: Setting SW wep key
Sep 29 14:56:15 [rc-scripts] Configuration not set for wlan0 - assuming dhcp
Sep 29 14:57:15 [dhcpcd] timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response_
This is the output of iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"default"
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: DB:B7:A1:FF:FF:FF
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s
Retry:on Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=96/100 Signal level=-39 dBm Noise level=-252 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
This is the output of lsmod:
Module Size Used by
3c589_cs 10760 1
r8180 53100 0
ieee80211_r8180 30788 1 r8180
ieee80211_crypt_r8180 4388 1 ieee80211_r8180
pcmcia 21224 5 3c589_cs
yenta_socket 20296 3
rsrc_nonstatic 11200 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 43396 4 3c589_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
snd_pcm_oss 48096 0
snd_mixer_oss 17152 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_oss 32384 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6272 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 49744 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_es18xx 28456 0
snd_pcm 83144 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_es18xx
snd_page_alloc 7620 1 snd_pcm
snd_opl3_lib 8992 1 snd_es18xx
snd_timer 21220 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep 7040 1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_mpu401_uart 6176 1 snd_es18xx
snd_rawmidi 20384 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 6860 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd 47940 12
snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_es18xx,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 7392 1 snd
aes_i586 38208 1
usbcore 108572 1
loop 13800 0
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