Wireless Nightmare

[BlueJack]

Hi there,

I'm pretty new to this linux stuff so excuse me if I come over as a complete idiot but I cant seem to get my wireless card functioning correctly on a slackware 10.2 box I am building.

I am accessing the box from putty and can connect to it fine when it has an ethernet connection. However when I start it up with just the wifi card I cant get into it. If I then plug in the ethernet cable I can get to the box through both the wireless card and the ethernet.

if I run ifconfig I get the following values

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
inet addr:192.168.1.9 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::240:63ff:fee1:8e42/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:39 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:171 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4322 (4.2 Kb) TX bytes:22166 (21.6 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:21 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:21 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1628 (1.5 Kb) TX bytes:1628 (1.5 Kb)

wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-60-B3-2A-15-8E-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:185 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:25809 (25.2 Kb) TX bytes:6053 (5.9 Kb)
Interrupt:10

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
inet addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::260:b3ff:fe2a:158e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:185 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:22479 (21.9 Kb) TX bytes:6053 (5.9 Kb)
Interrupt:10

which shows that the wireless card is getting an ip from the router. When I run iwconfig it shows the following

lo no wireless extensions.

wifi0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"DNCSOLUTIONS" Nickname:"BlueJack"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"DNCSOLUTIONS" Nickname:"BlueJack"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=75/70 Signal level=-18 dBm Noise level=-93 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

Finally, the route table of the box looks like this

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default mygateway.ar7 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0
default mygateway.ar7 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!!

Joe the noob

[mijzcx]

Is your chipset inline with ACX, google ACX!

[BlueJack]

I'm not sure how can I find that out?

All I know is that acx is not installed on the system. Does this matter?

[adrenaline]

What does ifconfig show with the ethernet unplugged?

also what does your /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf look like?

[babbutycoon]

Try passing the "acpi=ht" argument in the grub menu... I think it may work... i had the same problem long ago... i forgot what i did then.. but anyways try this.. reply if you got it working...