Another Wireless Nightmare. About to give up on Linux. Details inside!

[tdawg]

Hi all, I'm just about to give up on linux altogether, so I'm reaching out to you for help! I have an Intel Wireless 2200 BG with an ipw2200 driver. From the wireless cards list, it looks like it should work right out of the box. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardwareSupportComponentsWirelessNetworkCardsIntel

I'm currently following the WifiDocs Wireless Troubleshooting guide. So here's some info from some of the commands they tell me to use:
lshw:
*-network:1
description: Wireless interface
product: PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 3
bus info: pci@0000:02:03.0
logical name: eth1
version: 05
serial: 00:0e:35:53:d1:dc
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipw2200 driverversion=1.2.2kmprq firmware=ABG:9.0.2.6 (Mar 22 2005) latency=32 maxlatency=24 mingnt=3 module=ipw2200 multicast=yes wireless=unassociated

iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 unassociated ESSID:"Shroomery"
Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0f:1f:21:c9:c8
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:11

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0e:35:53:d1:dc
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3 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:5 Base address:0xe000 Memory:fafee000-fafeefff

eth0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0f:1f:21:c9:c8
inet addr:169.254.7.189 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:11

eth1:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0e:35:53:d1:dc
inet addr:169.254.9.2 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xe000 Memory:fafee000-fafeefff

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:1500 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1500 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:75384 (73.6 KB) TX bytes:75384 (73.6 KB)
iwlist
Usage: iwlist [interface] scanning [essid NNN] [last]
[interface] frequency
[interface] channel
[interface] bitrate
[interface] rate
[interface] encryption
[interface] keys
[interface] power
[interface] txpower
[interface] retry
[interface] ap
[interface] accesspoints
[interface] peers
[interface] event
[interface] auth
[interface] wpakeys
[interface] genie
[interface] modulation





Notes:

I've tried connecting with no security enabled and with SSID broadcasting. Still no luck.

I'd like to use WPA2 PKS encryption. But I understand it will take a backseat to jsut getting this thing up and running.

Thanks for all your help.

-tdawg:guitar:

[moore.bryan]

this might be incredibly basic, but have you installed linux-restricted-modules-common? also, could you post the output of sudo iwlist eth1 scan?

[tdawg]

Wow, Don't know how it happened, but I re entered my SSID and pw in the networking manager, and *poof* I'm online. Notice: I've re-entered my information about thirty times before that and it never worked. It worked right after I did the scan command above. Awesome. Now I have to search for an anti virus/firewall. Thanks!

-tdawg:guitar:

[moore.bryan]

excellent news! i've read many times in many other threads how re-entering one's essid and pw over-and-over again eventually makes it work, but i never believed it until now... ;-)

may i suggest ufw (http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=ufw&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all) and it's gui counterpart (gufw (http://gufw.tuxfamily.org/index.html)) for your firewall needs?

[tdawg]

Well, now it stopped working. I restarted and then *poof*. It doesn't work. Cannot even connect to the router.

Here's what you asked for before. I'm Shroomery.

gahh!!!

Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:14:BF:00:A3:CD
ESSID:"<hidden>"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Quality=68/100 Signal level=-59 dBm
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : CCMP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Extra: Last beacon: 160ms ago
Cell 02 - Address: 00:14:6C:7F:E9:1E
ESSID:"<hidden>"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Quality=53/100 Signal level=-69 dBm
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Extra: Last beacon: 148ms ago
Cell 03 - Address: 00:14:BF:00:A3:CD
ESSID:"Shroomery"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Quality=68/100 Signal level=-52 dBm
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : CCMP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Extra: Last beacon: 268ms ago

[moore.bryan]

that output is actually good news because your interface is up, scanning, and seeing your router; so don't get too discouraged! ;-)

are you using the vanilla network-manager (http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/) or something else, like wicd ("http://wicd/sourceforge.net/)?

[tdawg]

I'm using whichever one came with the newest version of Ubuntu. (July 2008) Also, is a wired connection as hard as this? Because I think I'm switching to that soon because I just moved up to school.

[moore.bryan]

wired is almost ALWAYS easier... let me do a little searching and see if i can come-up with anything, okay?

[moore.bryan]

okay... let's try-out wicd and see if that handles your passphrase better. make sure you're hard-connected to the internet, since you don't have wireless up-and-running yet.

first, add the wicd repo to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
sudo echo "deb http://apt.wicd.net hardy extras" >> /etc/apt/sources.listthen install wicd; it should tell you you have to uninstall network-manager... that's okay.
sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install wicdif this goes cleanly, post and we'll go from here.

[tdawg]

With wired, I am instantly on the internet. Should I still add wicd repo and install wicd like the post above me instructs? Btw, I appreciate all the help :D

[moore.bryan]

it can't hurt AND it might solve your wireless issue.