[SOLVED] Re enabling Network In DreamLinux 4.0 Alpha.......

[SA.com]

hi.

this is a continuation of my two previous psts about upgrading the kernel to 2.6.30 and anothr post about reinstalling the lan drivers dated 07 feb 10.

i have now installed dreamlinux 4.0 alpha, it is now connecting very fast to the net. iḿ unsure why 3.5 started going slow like that.

anyway, i have the neighbours unsecured connection running from across the street, but my ´steve´ network doesn work at all, either wired or wireless.

in stting up network, pppoe detects pan0, dunno what that is, but itś not shown in wicd manager. wlan0 & eth0 are present & detected in wicdś ´preferences´ section. i have it marked as ´always show wired interface´.

Can anyone help me get my ¨steve¨ network functioning again ? I tried setting up a manual connedction from the gui and then disabling wicd, but beyond wicd start or wicd stop, iḿ really not sure how to config it from Terminal since Iḿ still a bit of a novice yet.

the Braisilian font accents are really annoying. I sure hope nelson deletes them in beta.

Thank You!!
Steve

[reed9]

in stting up network, pppoe detects pan0, dunno what that is, but itś not shown in wicd manager. wlan0 & eth0 are present & detected in wicdś ´preferences´ section. i have it marked as ´always show wired interface´.

Wicd doesn't support PPP, PPPOE, or Mobile Broadband. Are you using those?

Your network, Steve, is showing up in wicd, but not connecting? What sort of encryption are you using? Wicd doesn't automatically select the right encryption method, so my first thought is maybe you have it set wrong.

[SA.com]

well, i am of no help here since i´m a bit new to this part & wicd tends to auto detect my stuff and just run. pretty strange that it doesn´t now, eh ??

anyway, i have no idea what commands to use to manually config it in terminal. do you know of any thing that will tell you what my wicd settings are so you can get a better look at them ?

perhaps you know how to look at the girls settings to get a comparison to mine, then we can use that as a starting point ??

my network is unsecured, I like to keep it that way. my beklkin router tests as nearly dead. but i am obviously having a few other issues that i don´
t yet quite comprehend. i think is fabulous that an Arch guru is taking the time out to help me, because in truth i really desire to learn it, and i am taking notes so i can share what i learn with others in the community.

i´m sorry if you wind up holding my hand, but i really need help so i can deepen my knowledge. i honestly appreciate this dude.

steve

iḿ not sure, but can you think of any easy questions you can ask me that will help you get a better picture of whats up?? I do need to replace my 3 month old router, but i just seem to be having issues beyond this, my friends microcrap wired box is slow as frozen molasses in january. AT&T is sending me a new modem too, I screamed at them till they gave in. it will be here tommorrrow [tues the 9th ??] so I´ll have it partially fixed by then.

at&t repair guys laptop runs just fine on both modem only & also modem / router connected together, yet 3 computers in the house run like crap on the same hardware. despite the router being nealy dead, my wireless dreamlinux 3.5 [i no longer use this] ran faster than the wired dreamlinux 3.5 box & wired microjunk box on the same śteve´ router / network.

now that i have 4.0. m not detecting the steve network at all, beyond it says iḿ connected to it [when ever i actually attempt to try this] and a few other minor detai8ls you may [or may not] want to know. perhaps these
details are clues ??

[reed9]

anyway, i have the neighbours unsecured connection running from across the street, but my ´steve´ network doesn work at all, either wired or wireless.

Rereading your first post, this would indicate it is trouble with the router. You're connecting to the neighbor's network, so it would seem the linux part of things is fine.

now that i have 4.0. m not detecting the steve network at all, beyond it says iḿ connected to it [when ever i actually attempt to try this]

I'm a little confused here. Wicd is saying you are connected to "steve"? Yet that network doesn't show in the list?

Does (as root)

iwlist wlan0 scan

include your network in the output?

Basic setup from the console for wireless is (as root)

iwconfig wlan0 essid "steve"
dhclient wlan0

Assuming the trouble is the router, do you know how to get into the router settings and make sure everything is correct?

[SA.com]

Rereading your first post, this would indicate it is trouble with the router. You're connecting to the neighbor's network, so it would seem the linux part of things is fine.

now that i have 4.0. m not detecting the steve network at all, beyond it says iḿ connected to it [when ever i actually attempt to try this]

I'm a little confused here. Wicd is saying you are connected to "steve"? Yet that network doesn't show in the list?

Does (as root)

iwlist wlan0 scan

include your network in the output?

Basic setup from the console for wireless is (as root)

iwconfig wlan0 essid "steve"
dhclient wlan0

Assuming the trouble is the router, do you know how to get into the router settings and make sure everything is correct?

steve@SteveWilliams:~$ iwlist wlan0 scan
bash: iwlist: command not found
steve@SteveWilliams:~$ su
Password:
root@SteveWilliams:/home/steve# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:22:75A:64:C7
ESSID:"STEVE"
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=100/100 Signal level:-30 dBm Noise level=-97 dBm
Encryption key:off
IE: Unknown: 00055354455645
IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
IE: Unknown: 030106
IE: Unknown: 2A0106
IE: Unknown: 2F0106
IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
IE: Unknown: DD090010180201F0050000
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101000007A4000023A4000042435E0062322F 00
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=0000000c09cfdeb5
Extra: Last beacon: 420ms ago
Cell 02 - Address: 00:0F:B5:36:C8:57
ESSID:"NETGEAR"
Mode:Master
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality=28/100 Signal level:-89 dBm Noise level=-99 dBm
Encryption key:off
IE: Unknown: 00074E455447454152
IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
IE: Unknown: 03010B
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: Unknown: 2F0100
IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
IE: Unknown: DD06001018020100
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=0000005e04d1d09b
Extra: Last beacon: 30ms ago
Cell 03 - Address: 00:1A:C4:51:561
ESSID:"2WIRE277"
Mode:Master
Channel:1
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality=0/100 Signal level:-101 dBm Noise level=-101 dBm
Encryption key:on
IE: Unknown: 00083257495245323737
IE: Unknown: 010882848B0C12961824
IE: Unknown: 030101
IE: Unknown: 0706555320010B1B
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: Unknown: 32043048606C
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
Extra:tsf=0000008f2cb2e6ac
Extra: Last beacon: 960ms ago
Cell 04 - Address: 00:1E:2A:E5:3F:A0
ESSID:"stil-phil"
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=0/100 Signal level:-100 dBm Noise level=-100 dBm
Encryption key:on
IE: Unknown: 00097374696C2D7068696C
IE: Unknown: 010882848B960C121824
IE: Unknown: 030106
IE: Unknown: 050400010000
IE: Unknown: 0706555320010B1B
IE: Unknown: 200100
IE: Unknown: 2A0102
IE: Unknown: 32043048606C
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101820003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F 00
IE: Unknown: DD0900037F010100350000
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=0000074ef220b181
Extra: Last beacon: 483ms ago

root@SteveWilliams:/home/steve#
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Confusion:

connected to netgear at 28% [ip::172.168.0.65] sometime at 5%, though. still very fast at 5%.

When I try ´´steve´´ I get:

connected to steve at 100% [1p::192.168.2.3] at bottom of wicd screen. panel icon shows wifi signal and all the bars are full. indicating a strong azzz signal.

Side B.S.:

on the customers 3.5 box, the wired connction shows up in the Panel as 2 rectangles and are blue when connected, grey when not. this is true for 4.0, I can see this. but of course the wired and wireless are dead in 4.0, but works fine still in my customers 3.5, and my previous 3.5 worked just the same way till one day my wired connection just auto magically died. Now neither one works in 4.0, but I pick up the girls unsecured accross the street.

Just for clarity purposes, I really don wanna set up my wireless connection on my steve network yet, if it bombs, Iĺl never recover it. Forcing me to reinstall. So do you mind just helping me fix the wired crap first ??

4.0 does not work straight off the modem, I tried it. Works on Router / Modem combo only on chicks stuff accross the street.

No. Belkin walks me through it. I was on channel 11, so is chick, So I switched to channel 6 instead.

Belkin wants to d/l a patch. This is forth coming. RIf this bombs, I get a free router replacement.

[SA.com]

Update:

I added a patch [#f5-7434 xx-xx] to the router and now all goes fast as far as connection goes.

dreamlinux 4.0 still will not connect to ¨steve¨ .

plz advise.

[reed9]

wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:22:75A:64:C7
ESSID:"STEVE"
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=100/100 Signal level:-30 dBm Noise level=-97 dBm
Encryption key:off

Well, the network is showing up in the scan, so I'm not sure why wicd isn't seeing it.

Does this get you a working wireless connection?

su -
iwconfig wlan0 essid "STEVE"
dhclient wlan0

As for wired, I'm really not clear on what you're saying is happening.
What is the output of (with the ethernet cable connected)

ifconfig

Does this get you a connection with the wired?

su -
dhclient eth0

[SA.com]

This is side stuff, I know all that, but you are a guru dude so I'm posting this just in case it will hlp you "see" this better.

Since I'm not as advanced as you, it is my sincere hope that this has even some minor value.

I noted that while Wicd does not support ppp or pppoe AT&T is pppoe or pppoA [i have a choice here] and my DreamLinux 3.5 installs support it.

I think this is strange I pick up the girl across the street & not my own 8" away. My 3.5 started doing this on the wired connction for some strange reason.


Anyway:


Home Help
Login
Connection Information
Check Connection
Advanced

Connection Information

DSL UP
Connection UP
User ID notarealaddy@att.net
Connected at 1536 Kbps (Downstream)
384 Kbps (Upstream)
Internet IP Address 70.251.115.28
Internet Gateway Address 70.251.127.254
DNS Servers 68.94.156.1 dnsr1.sbcglobal.net
151.164.8.201 dns1.ksc2mo.sbcglobal.net
Mode PPP on the modem (Public IP for LAN device)
Timeout Never
Modem Information
Modem Name Motorola
Model 2210-02
Serial Number 157098104208
Software Version 7.7.5r8
MAC Address 00:24:93:c6:d5:90
First Use Date 2010/02/09 14:18:27 GMT
Local Network
Modem IP Address 192.168.1.254
Ethernet Status Connected

I need to log off and back on. brb.

[SA.com]

Does this get you a working wireless connection?

su -
iwconfig wlan0 essid "STEVE"
dhclient wlan0

steve@SteveWilliams:~$ su
Password:
root@SteveWilliams:/home/steve# iwconfig wlan0 essid "STEVE"
root@SteveWilliams:/home/steve# dhclient wlan0
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 9553
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2p1
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:24:2c:04:34:73
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:24:2c:04:34:73
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
No DHCPOFFERS received.
Trying recorded lease 172.168.0.85
PING 172.168.0.1 (172.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 172.168.0.1 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
Reloading /etc/samba/smb.conf: smbd onlyNo process in pidfile `/var/run/samba/smbd.pid' found running; none killed.
.
root@SteveWilliams:/home/steve#


yes. it is now working, youare agenius dude

[SA.com]

Well, the network is showing up in the scan, so I'm not sure why wicd isn't seeing it.

As for wired, I'm really not clear on what you're saying is happening.
What is the output of (with the ethernet cable connected)

ifconfig

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DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
No DHCPOFFERS received.
Trying recorded lease 172.168.0.85
PING 172.168.0.1 (172.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 172.168.0.1 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
Reloading /etc/samba/smb.conf: smbd onlyNo process in pidfile `/var/run/samba/smbd.pid' found running; none killed.
.
root@SteveWilliams:/home/steve# ifconfig
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:2c:04:34:73
inet addr:192.168.2.3 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::224:2cff:fe04:3473/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2943 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3647 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1350918 (1.2 MiB) TX bytes:845531 (825.7 KiB)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-24-2C-04-34-73-77-6C-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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)

root@SteveWilliams:/home/steve#

After disconnecting wireless ¨steve´' to varify weather or not wired is working, wireless ¨steve´ is dead. I attempted to revive it with the w config commands, but no luck. I also tried ¨steve´ instead of ¨STEVE¨, but again no luck.

will the working 3.5 wicd config commands on my customers box be of any help ?? matching the two up perhaps ??

I am still getting messages in the Panel and on WiCD´s Network Availability Screen that says Iḿ Connected to ¨steve¨ [Not ¨STEVE¨], i changed this ealier.