[NBLUG/talk] Wireless configure in Debian

[Nat W.]

Why don't you use eth0 as your device? It has wireless extensions it looks
like.

-Nat W. 
http://www.pseudoweb.net


-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at nblug.org [mailto:talk-bounces at nblug.org] On Behalf Of
Ian Sutherland
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 9:54 AM
To: General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions,etc.
Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Wireless configure in Debian

Here is the latest;

debian:/sbin# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      NOT READY!  ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed  Channel:6  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Tx-Power=31 dBm   Sensitivity=0/200
          Retry min limit:0   RTS thr=0 B   Fragment thr=0 B
          Encryption key: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:0   Missed beacon:0

eth1      no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

debian:/sbin# dhclient eth1
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:05:5d:47:3e:63
Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:05:5d:47:3e:63
Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database.

Sleeping.

debian:/sbin# iwconfig eth1 essid "SonomaGrove"
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.

debian:/home/ian# iwconfig wlan0 essid "SonomaGrove"
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device.

essid SonomaGrove

WEP is turned off

Mac Address 00-E0-98-B5-24-83

Thanks a lot,

Ian

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:55:27 -0800, "Troy Arnold" <troy at zenux.net> said:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:41:00PM -0800, Ian Sutherland wrote:
> > debian:/home/ian# iwlist eth1 scan
> > eth1      Interface doesn't support scanning.
> 
> That's odd, I thought that driver supported scanning.  Are you sure eth1
> is the wifi card ?  /sbin/iwconfig will tell you which interfaces have
> wireless extensions.
> 
> Did you try the easiest thing and: 'dhclient eth1' ?
> Who knows, we might get lucky ;-)
> 
> What to do next depends on what you know about your wireless AP (access
> point).  What is it's essid? is WEP turned on ?
> 
> Like I kinda went into on my first post, getting it going is usually just
> a matter of using iwconfig to set the necessary parameters for the AP to
> talk to you.
> # iwconfig eth1 essid "foobeer" mode Managed key 'xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx'
> 
> then asking for a lease with dhclient or pump.
> 
> I know you don't have an Internet connection in Debian, but if any of
> those commands provide information that you think would be useful, you
> can always redirect it into a file...
> 
> Oh, and anyone else with better ideas, please jump in :-)  I know just
> enough about wireless to (usually) get my packets in and out.
> 
> 
> -troy
> 
> 
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