Unable to obtain IP address

[tim183]

Hi all,

I am using ubuntu 8.10 intrepid ibex 32 bit.
I ahve an atheros ar5007eg wifi card with the madwifi modules installed.
I have also tried ndiswrapper and the windows drivers and the recent ath5k module. All gave me the same result. I can see the available wireless networks, but cannot connect to them (and yes, they are OPEN networks).

So in frustration today I bought a usb wireless stick.

And guess what, same result.

So it appears it's something to do with my networkmanager congiguration or something, as it doesn't work on the open home network, or my open network in my office.

I was in the madwifi irc chan yesterday trying to get some help but no luck.

can anyone help?

here is sudo iwconfig
tim@tim:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wifi0 no wireless extensions.

ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
Retryff RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-96 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:6425 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

pan0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"roffs"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Managementff
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

[SpaceTeddy]

i am by far an expert on wifi, kernel modules or drivers... but by the looks of your output, this is not a hardware issue, but probably something to do with the connection itself.

I can see that your wlan0 (probably your internal card ?) has an essid set and also picks up the AP. So the acctualy connection should be there.
What kind of encyrption does your Wifi have have you double checked the password and have you tried to set your ip manually after connection and then looking if you can at least reach internal hosts.

this seems a bit weird to me... anybody else got any ideas ?

[superprash2003]

its mostly because you are getting an ip addresss. post output of ifconfig from your terminal.. what is your router's ip address??