No Wireless Connection
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Mon May 14 22:01:58 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 17:12 -0400, John Dey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I now have a ipw3945.ko driver set up. The driver is being recognized
> by system-config-network. But when I try to make the wireless eth1
> active I get an error:
>
> Determining IP information for eth1...failed; no link present. Check
> cable?
>
> iwconfig eth1 from command line produces
>
> eth1 unassociated ESSID:"linksys" Nickname:"robo6.jsdey.com"
> Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point:
> Not-Associated
> Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm
> Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Encryption key:off
> Power Management: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:27 Missed beacon:0
>
> I do know that the linksys WAP and ipw3945 wireless device are working
> since I installed opensuse 10.2 and wireless connected out of the box.
>
> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. And thanks for getting me
> this far.
Did you set up your mode (managed or ad-hoc), WEP key and set the key
type (open or restricted)?
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