This is a continuation of the thread "Add Wireless to laptop".
Here is come data regarding my failure to make a WiFi
connection with FC7 on my dual boot laptop.
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:29:37 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> In your case, I would stop NM, and run "service network restart"
> (as root), and say "iwconfig".
> This will tell you if your card is working.
>
[root@mbrc35 ~]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key: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
[root@mbrc35 ~]# ps -ef | grep Net
root 3287 3244 0 14:14 pts/3 00:00:00 grep Net
[root@mbrc35 ~]# /etc/init.d/network start
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface eth0: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface wlan0: Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
Determining IP information for wlan0... failed.
[FAILED]
1,1 Top
> If it is, look at /var/log/messages in the computer
> it is supposed to be connecting to,
> and see if there was an attempted link.
This is the log of the laptop. As mentioned below, the target log was
empty.
Jul 16 16:26:14 localhost dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Jul 16 16:26:15 localhost dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Jul 16 16:26:15 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
Jul 16 16:26:20 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
Jul 16 16:26:31 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
Jul 16 16:26:42 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
Jul 16 16:26:52 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
Jul 16 16:27:02 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
Jul 16 16:27:14 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2
Jul 16 16:27:16 localhost dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
> If there was, look in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<whatever>
> and make sure the entries there are correct.
[root@mbrc35 network-scripts]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=wlan0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=RoseMike
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
USERCTL=yes
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
ESSID=RoseMike
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Auto
RATE=Auto
HWADDR=[verified MAC address]
ONBOOT=yes
How do they look? I don't know what "CHANNEL" is.
>
> Also, if you are using dhcp, look at /etc/dhcpd.conf in the target machine.
Its not that sort of thing, It is a Vigor 2910G router. Its DCHP
is working and it has a log I can watch.
Remember that my problem is on a dual boot laptop. I run Wireshark
in each partition, watching the WLAN. I try the same connection in
the WinXP partition as in the FC7 partition.
WinXP: Wireshark and Vigor show plenty of activity; quick connection.
FC7: Wireshark and Vigor show exactly zero activity; no connection.
I note that the blue wLan light on the laptop comes on in both cases.
Thanks for any help you can provided.
Mike.
