On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, John W. Linville wrote:
> I'd have to see more of /var/log/messages, as well as iwconfig output.
# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"xxxxxxx"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:3431-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx
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
where the ESSID is correct and the key is the ASCII representation of
the 10-digit WEP key, which is precisely what can be read from the
linksys wireless security page.
from /var/log/messages, upon running system-config-network and
trying to activate wlan0:
...
Feb 8 13:13:47 localhost dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Feb 8 13:13:47 localhost dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Feb 8 13:13:47 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
Feb 8 13:13:55 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
Feb 8 13:14:07 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
Feb 8 13:14:17 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
Feb 8 13:14:36 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
Feb 8 13:14:48 localhost dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
...
> Are they using shared-key authentication instead of open? Or
> perhaps vice versa?
the stock linksys firmware doesn't offer that kind of choice -- you
can pick either straight WEP or a number of WPA variations or RADIUS.
i'm not sure what the connecting windows system has.
> Are you setting the WEP key before setting the SSID?
i'm not sure what this means -- in system-config-network, i've
simply filled in the appropriate values in the dialog screen.
Mode: Managed
SSID: Specified XXXXXXX
Key: xxxxxxxxxxx
and no manual selection of channel or transmit rate. this has always
worked before.
> Are you doing this manually? Did you stop NetworkManager before
> doing any manual configuration?
yes, manually, and NM and NMD are both disabled.
rday
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