| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
martindv
Apprentice
Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 171
Location: Argentina
|
 Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:01 pm Post subject: Problems with wireless interface |
 |
|
Gents,
Yesterday i was ready to configure my wireless connection. I read documentation, and the howto published on the forum. Let me tell you that i have a broadcom wireless card into an HP dv1000 notebook.
Well, i compiled my kernel in order to get the driver module and other nedeed stuff. I emerged WPA_SUPPLICANT and WIRELESS-TOOLS was ready.
Now, when i do an iwconfig in order to know where my wireless interface is i get the following message | Code: | eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid Bit Rate=11 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
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
|
and it seems to be ok. Well following the howto i went to ifconfig to bring the interface up.. and i got this | Code: | Gentoo martin # ifconfig eth1 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
Gentoo martin # |
but the most estrange thing is that when i do and its shown as up.
| Code: | Gentoo martin # ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:A5:2B:14:19
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)
Interrupt:4
Gentoo martin # |
but when i tried to bring the interface down i get the prompt but the interface still up.
and when i do a single i have only eth1 and lo interfaces..
| Code: | Gentoo martin # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:9F:F7:77:BF
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3933 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3181 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5339785 (5.0 Mb) TX bytes:298728 (291.7 Kb)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0x3000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 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)
Gentoo martin #
|
So i have no clue what is going on...
Any clue please let me know.
Thanks in advance.
_________________
Gentoo Rulez
AMD Athlon XP 2800+ @2.08Ghz
Asus A7V8NX-E-Deluxe
Nvidia Nforce2 chipset
1GB Ram
ASUS GeForce N6600 256MB RAM
2 IDE HDDS @Primary/Secondary Master
1 120GB HDD @Sata Channel #0 |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
xandris
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 113
|
| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:41 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| What does dmesg report when you try to bring the interface up? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
playahater
Guru
Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 382
Location: Serbia
|
| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 10:15 pm Post subject: |
|
|
what does
| Code: |
ls -la /etc/ini.d/ |grep net
|
say?
and post your wireless.conf and /etc/conf.d/net .. 
i had similar troubles .. and it was due to bad configuration .. but i have fixed that ..
now i`m trying to set up the net wifi script, cuz it wont work uppon boot .. but i have to start it manually .. 
Cheers
_________________
http://droopia.net |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
mrwest
n00b
Joined: 29 Jun 2005
Posts: 2
|
| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:13 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Running on a Dell Latitude D610, I had similar troubles and have now moved on to other unique problems.
Previously I was using some different versions of the firmware listed in /usr/share/doc/bcm43xx-fwcutter/README.gz and would get the same error (SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory) when running ifconfig up or dhcpcd. When running iwlist eht1 scanning, I would get a message saying there were no access points found.
I updated the firmware using bcm43xx-fwcutter with a version I had used (mostly) successfully with ndiswrapper: 3.120.28 from Dell's support web site. This made ifconfig and iwlist appear to act better, until I ran dhcpcd. dhcpcd would time out and leave everything else in a nonworking state.
I went to Dell's support site and got the latest driver, 4.10.47.3, but this seemed to put me back to the point of ifconfig not being able to bring the network interface up.
(sorry about the vague descriptions, but I can't test this while online)
for me
| Code: | mrw_laptop bcmwl5.sys-3.120.28 # ls -la /etc/init.d | grep net
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 26 09:23 net.eth0 -> net.lo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 21 2005 net.eth1 -> net.eth0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24324 Jun 26 09:23 net.lo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4408 May 9 13:36 net.ppp0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3046 Jun 26 09:23 netmount
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
Networking & Security
