Firefox and Opera lost connection

[johanPO]

Without Azures my PC has been running fine dureing the day. Downloaded fedora 7 via a torrent in Opera without problems. (3GB of data), I have found something strange. When I do ifconfig I see that both eth0 and eth1 are allcoated an IP address. I only have a WLAN connection so I would only expect one valid IP address. Somehow this is a bt strange to me

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:31:90:02:4E
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
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)
Interrupt:21

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:36:0D:CD:BC
inet addr:192.168.0.67 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:151519 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:134349 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:163843451 (156.2 Mb) TX bytes:20350836 (19.4 Mb)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0x4000


localhost johan # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"Z10"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.447 GHz Access Point: 00:17:9A:F2:96:71
Bit Rate:12 Mb/s Tx-Power=31 dBm Sensitivity=20/200
Retry short limit:8 RTS thr=-1 B Fragment thr=256 B
Encryption key:????????????????????(deleted by me) Security mode:open
Link Quality:133/0 Signal level:-81 dBm Noise level:-247 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

[Dark_MaGe]

I wonder if the open security mode cause a failure in the authentication procedure with the ap...have you tried using iwconfig eth1 enc closed ? the open mode is not a default auth method on most of the routers, so unless you've changed it yourown it shouldn't be that way

[johanPO]

I had not set the mode to open. I had to use the following

sudo iwconfig eth1 enc restricted

and now I have

Lets see how this goes, thanks for the input

[johanPO]

Was a bit confused about having the system setup to be open. Found out that this is done by the net-setup script.

johan@localhost ~ $ more /etc/conf.d/wireless
# This wireless configuration file was built by net-setup
key_Z10="cdac-etcXXX-6a enc open"
preferred_aps=( "Z10" )
associate_order="forcepreferredonly"

[reuben]

I'm having difficulty getting the internet connection up and going, probably because I'm a Linux newbee. How I wish it to be simple as it is with Windows OS. Also, my Sabayon Linux doesn't detect any printer which is Lexmark Z13. Somebody please help since I don't want to give up Sabayon Linux. Thanks!