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I installed the drivers and firmware for my Airlink AWLH5025 (Ralink RT61 chipset) PCI wireless card and NetworkManager sees the wireless networks but won't connect to them. I've tried tweaking my /etc/conf.d/net as instructed by the Gentoo Handbook (for both wpa_supplicant and wireless-tools), but no dice. I know my wireless works because I'm connected now in Windows 7 and have also tested it with Ubuntu.
please post the o/p of
ifconfig -a
and are you able to ping the network??
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:f3:75:c6:01
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)
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:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:240 (240.0 B) TX bytes:240 (240.0 B)
sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 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:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:a5:33:9d:5a
UP BROADCAST 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)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-14-A5-33-9D-5A-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP RUNNING MTU:0 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)
Your wireless card seems to be present but not assigned an ip address.Quote:
Originally Posted by kahlil88
Do you get any specific error when trying to connect to the network???
and also can you ping your network???
When I try to connect with NetworkManager, it animates for a few seconds then a message pops up that says "the network connection has been disconnected." What good is ping if I can't connect? I just get an "unknown host" error. I've also tried /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restartQuote:
Originally Posted by vickey_20
Quote:
* Caching service dependencies... [ ok ]
* Bringing down interface wlan0
* Removing addresses
* Stopping wpa_cli on wlan0... [ ok ]
* Stopping wpa_supplicant on wlan0... [ ok ]
* Bringing up interface wlan0
* Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0... [ ok ]
* Starting wpa_cli on wlan0... [ ok ]
* Backgrounding ......
* WARNING: net.wlan0 has started, but is inactive
try thisif this doesn't work try giving it an ipCode:ifconfig wlan0 up
ping the network to check whether it is reachable.Code:ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.10
Tried that a bunch alreadyQuote:
Originally Posted by vickey_20
I know the network is reachable because I can connect to it with Windows 7 and pretty much any other computer available.Quote:
Originally Posted by vickey_20
network reachable with windows doesn't guarantee it will be reachable by other OS too. There may be some different problem here.
Please the o/p of ping to the wireless ntw here
There may be more to this than a simple failure to connect. I would first like to start with you providing all of the basic information needed to begin a diagnosis of the problem There is a stickied thread, that explains how to find the needed info. You can use the script in the second part to automatically get the info.
Wireless Setup - Start Here
In addition, you may want to give us the complete output of this command, as it may contain many error messages.
Code:dmesg
Already had a look at that thread before I posted this one. The output of dmesg is quite long, but here's the wireless stuff that shows up:
Quote:
[ 49.233487] rt61pci 0000:05:01.0: firmware: requesting rt2661.bin
[ 49.298511] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 49.709704] Adding 4715036k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:4715036k
[ 50.086028] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:06:25:e9:fa:0b
[ 50.087422] wlan0: authenticated
[ 50.087424] wlan0: associate with AP 00:06:25:e9:fa:0b
[ 50.090027] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:06:25:e9:fa:0b (capab=0x401 status=12 aid=0)
[ 50.090030] wlan0: AP denied association (code=12)
[ 50.287019] wlan0: associate with AP 00:06:25:e9:fa:0b
[ 50.306182] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:06:25:e9:fa:0b (capab=0x401 status=12 aid=0)
[ 50.306186] wlan0: AP denied association (code=12)
[ 50.487017] wlan0: associate with AP 00:06:25:e9:fa:0b
[ 50.488878] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:06:25:e9:fa:0b (capab=0x401 status=12 aid=0)
[ 50.488882] wlan0: AP denied association (code=12)
[ 50.687031] wlan0: association with AP 00:06:25:e9:fa:0b timed out
[ 1119.605029] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:06:25:e9:fa:0b
[ 1119.608026] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:06:25:e9:fa:0b
[ 1119.609605] wlan0: authenticated
[ 1119.609607] wlan0: associate with AP 00:06:25:e9:fa:0b
[ 1119.615768] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:06:25:e9:fa:0b (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=1)
[ 1119.615770] wlan0: associated
[ 1119.616507] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 1119.616560] wlan0: disassociating by local choice (reason=3)
[ 1129.930012] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 1130.456029] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:06:25:e9:fa:0b
[ 1130.457539] wlan0: authenticated
[ 1130.457542] wlan0: associate with AP 00:06:25:e9:fa:0b
[ 1130.459780] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:06:25:e9:fa:0b (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=1)
[ 1130.459782] wlan0: associated
[ 1130.460590] wlan0: disassociating by local choice (reason=3)
[ 1141.300026] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:06:25:e9:fa:0b
[ 1141.301550] wlan0: authenticated
[ 1141.301552] wlan0: associate with AP 00:06:25:e9:fa:0b
[ 1141.303854] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:06:25:e9:fa:0b (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=1)
[ 1141.303857] wlan0: associated
[ 1141.304359] wlan0: disassociating by local choice (reason=3)