No Wireless Connection

John Dey jsdey at optonline.net
Mon May 14 22:08:15 UTC 2007


I have everything wide open right not.  No key requirement.  See the 
output--it indicates mode as Managed.


On May 14, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:

> 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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