[NBLUG/talk] Wireless configure in Debian

Ian Sutherland iansuth at fastmail.fm
Sat Mar 5 11:23:17 PST 2005


Latest on eth0;

debian:/home/ian# iwconfig eth0 essid "SonomaGrove"
debian:/home/ian# dhclient eth0
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
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:30:b4:00:00:00
Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:30:b4:00:00:00
Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
send_packet: Network is down
receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
send_packet: Network is down
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database.

Sleeping.

Ian

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 10:01:18 -0800, "Nat W." <calvin166 at pseudoweb.net>
said:
> 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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