Wireless will not work [Solved]

[Foxblood]

Hi,

I hope this is in the right area. I searched for entries that deal with the same problem but the replies either didn't work or I didn't understand them. Total noob. I have a fresh install and wireless cannot connect. I know I entered the correct WEP key etc but still no joy. I dual boot with Win 7 and that connection works fine. There's an unsecured connection that I can get on but, when I connect to that, I can ping but not get pages. I cannot ping on my own network. Any help/advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

[Foxblood]

A brief update. I can connect with a cable so at least I have internet access. I resolved the issue of pages not displaying by disabling ipv6 in about:config in Firefox. I removed knetworkmanager and replaced it with wicd. However, I still cannot connect wirelessly. Wicd gives me a 'bad password' error. If anyone can help with this wireless issue, I would be eternally grateful. Well, for a while, anyway. That would allow me time to start figuring out why there's no sound. Cheers.

[pepe999]

Do not use WICD as a network manager. It's buggy or something. I've tried 1.7.0 version on Sabayon and Debian and doesn't work on both of them. It also looks like they stop developing the program so WICD is probably useless at this time. However, Gnome/Kde Network Manager should work fine. Give us an output of "lspci" or "lshw"(type in terminal as root) because we don't know what your wifi card is. You can also try "iwlist scan", "ifconfig" and "iwconfig" to find out if the wifi is working(scanning networks)..

[Foxblood]

Hi, thanks for your reply.

Here's what I have:

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567V-2 Gigabit Network Connection
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 1
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 2
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIB (ICH10) LPC Interface Controller
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller #1
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller #2
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT215 [GeForce GT 320] (rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6315 Series Firewire Controller
04:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5413 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

lshow - not found

iwlist scan -- Note, this is the second time I ran this command. The first time, I got that none of the interfaces support scanning.

lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:22:10:8E:FA:30
Channel:1
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality=51/70 Signal level=-59 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"wlan offline"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
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=00000026b1cc6236
Extra: Last beacon: 950ms ago
IE: Unknown: 000C776C616E206F66666C696E65
IE: Unknown: 010582848B960C
IE: Unknown: 030101
IE: Unknown: 2A0106
IE: Unknown: 32080C1218243048606C
Cell 02 - Address: 00:0F:CC:9A:B7:70
Channel:7
Frequency:2.442 GHz (Channel 7)
Quality=33/70 Signal level=-77 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"eircom4653 4274"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 22 Mb/s
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=00000051b12fce7f
Extra: Last beacon: 609ms ago
IE: Unknown: 000F656972636F6D343635332034323734
IE: Unknown: 010582848B962C
IE: Unknown: 030107
IE: Unknown: 2A0104
IE: Unknown: 32080C1218243048606C

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning

ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:11:a2:13:58
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Memory:fcfe0000-fd000000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:56 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:56 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3200 (3.1 KiB) TX bytes:3200 (3.1 KiB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 70:f1:a1:47:aa:6f
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:216 (216.0 B)

iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off

eth0 no wireless extensions.

I hope this info is useful, if anything else is required let me know.

Thanks.

[pepe999]

It looks like your wifi card(Atheros AR5413) is working. I can see the card scanning networks, it means it works so there has to be a problem with settings. I use WPA2-PSK-AES encryption and everything is all right. Change the encrypt, it might help.

[Foxblood]

I changed over to WPA-2. Still no joy. Do you think it might be worth changing back to knetworkmanager?

[pepe999]

Yes, change it..

[Fitzcarraldo]

Moved to 'Networking and Wireless' shed (forum).

[Foxblood]

Rejoice, glory is ours!!

I re-installed knetworkmanager and using WPA-2 it connected right up. Thanks to all for all the help. Now, I can move on to my next disaster. Thanks again.

[Fitzcarraldo]

NetworkManager FTW.

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