Yes
No
Somewhat
Hi All-
Any chance of a hand with my wifi? I've had it working fine on WinXP, using WPA-PSK/TKIP, which is all fine.
Network manager doesn't want to play the WPA game (I don't think this is news to anyone!), and worse, often when I try to tweak the settings, the system crashes, and won't re-start, see : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=613133 I'm not alone!
My network/interfaces currently only contains:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
Device manager reports that the card is:
Texas Instruments
ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
Bus type PCI
Device Type / Capabilities unknown
OK- I know this doesn't look right, but I am afraid to fiddle in case I get the crash, and then have to re-install (for the 9th time) when Ubuntu won't re-start.
Please help a noob!
Charlie
Last edited by FokkerCharlie; November 24th, 2007 at 02:02 PM.
Hi wieman
Here's the results of the scan:
I'm afraid that I am not sure what drive I'm using- a complete Linux noob. Network manager sees the wifi adapter, and lists a handful of networks, which is what I would expect. Unfortunately, after trying some settings, the crashes and problems start. So I suppose that means that the driver isn't working correctly?!ca@ca-laptop:~$ sudo iwlist scan
[sudo] password for ca:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:16:E3:13:30:B9
ESSID:"CharlesNet"
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality=52/100 Signal level=33/100 Noise level=0/100
Encryption keyn
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
Cell 02 - Address: 00:19:E4:12:88:89
ESSID:"2WIRE605"
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.422 GHz (Channel 3)
Quality=36/100 Signal level=10/100 Noise level=0/100
Encryption keyn
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
Cell 03 - Address: 00:19:E4:12:88:8B
ESSID:"BT Fusion-8605"
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.422 GHz (Channel 3)
Quality=36/100 Signal level=10/100 Noise level=0/100
Encryption keyn
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
Cell 04 - Address: 00:16:0A:09:13B
ESSID:""
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=37/100 Signal level=12/100 Noise level=0/100
Encryption keyn
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; 22 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Cell 05 - Address: 00:18:4D:3EC:CA
ESSID:"NETGEAR"
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality=31/100 Signal level=3/100 Noise level=0/100
Encryption keyn
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; 22 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Cell 06 - Address: 00:0F:B5:CE:AB:FA
ESSID:"PRIV_WIFI2"
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality=31/100 Signal level=3/100 Noise level=0/100
Encryption keyn
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; 22 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Cheers
Charlie
FokkerCharlie,
if I'm not mistaken Texas Instruments
ACX 111 54Mbps linux driver does not yet support WPA.
(The module should be called acx)
I guess you need to try ndiswrapper, and make use of the windows driver with it.
Ok, this maybe sound like i'm quite lazy and didn't try it harder, but that's not riught...i really follow the original threat and only get this...i can configure my network only with wpa and broadcast essid. It works fine, but every time i restart my pc it's has some trouble to connect...on the other hand, i want to get the wpa2 secure connection, any clue?
This is what i've tried and works (any change to this it doesn't works:
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.1.100
gateway 192.168.1.1
dns-nameservers 200.69.32.5
netmask 255.255.255.0
wpa-driver wext
wpa-ssid xxxxxxxxxxxxx
wpa-ap-scan 1
wpa-proto WPA
wpa-pairwise TKIP
wpa-group TKIP
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-psk c53ad64bde66e72384da57fe1536917e994ca4bfdc79bd7c30 9c76ca02aa9afe
I'm a gutsy user with d-link DWL-G510 Rev C and a wrt54g linksys router
Thanks and sorry for my lousy english...
Wieman, ubalap, thanks for your help.
I'll have a go with NDISWRAPPER.
Charlie
Hi again
Just in case you're interested- I had a go with Ndiswrapper.
It worked a treat, until I'd re-booted a couple of times, and then it stopped. I have no idea why. I am completely sure that I had not changed any configuration in the meantime- in fact I was starting and stopping the computer just to see if the WLAN would stay working! Same results with WICD and Network Manager.
Anyway, maybe I'll ask in the Ndiswrapper forums for help there.
Cheerio!
Charlie
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