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psdasilva
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 Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 4:14 pm Post subject: Strange output of iwconfig |
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At a given point, a few months ago, iwconfig (no parameters) began give me the following (strange?) output:
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wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:"XXXX"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=69/70 Signal level=-41 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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It was supposed the quality showed xx/100 and that Encryption key showed something other than off, even for wpa2.
I am using k 2.6.33 (but this happened for 2.6.32 at least). Today I emerged linux-headers 2.6.33, glibc, last masked wireless-tools but I got the same output!
Besides this, the connection works fine, as expected.
Any help/comments?
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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psdasilva,
Its either not associated or its associated with an unencrypted network,
Is the ESSID and ap MAC address (both which you have suppressed) your own ?
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psdasilva
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | psdasilva,
Its either not associated or its associated with an unencrypted network,
Is the ESSID and ap MAC address (both which you have suppressed) your own ? |
As I said, everything is working fine. It is properly associated to my ESSID and correct MAC address.
Only the display of key and link quality is wrong.
I have a netbook with kubuntu, also using wireless-tools 30_pre9 (the same I have currently installed althoug the stable 29 has the same problem), that correcty shows the link quality xx/100 and key is not off! |
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oRDeX
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 11:06 am Post subject: |
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which driver are you using?
Probably it is a problem of interaction between the new nl80211 stack and the old w_ext (iwconfig belongs to this one) |
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d2_racing
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Can you post this :
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# ifconfig -a
# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
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psdasilva
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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Here they are ... I ommited the addresses and other hexa numbers whose meanings I don't know because of eventual security reasons.
x1 and x2 match the addresses in "ifconfig" and "cat" respectively for eth0 and wlan0.
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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:x1
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:29
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2000 (1.9 KiB) TX bytes:2000 (1.9 KiB)
pan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
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:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
tunl0 Link encap:IPIP Tunnel HWaddr
NOARP MTU:1480 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)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:x2
inet addr:192.168.1.33 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: xxxx::xxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4210 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4457 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2808119 (2.6 MiB) TX bytes:511785 (499.7 KiB)
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# This file was automatically generated by the /lib64/udev/write_net_rules
# program, run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file.
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# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single
# line, and change only the value of the NAME= key.
# PCI device 0xyyyy:0xyyyy (r8169)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:x1", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"
# PCI device 0xyyyy:0xyyyy (iwl3945)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:x2", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*", NAME="wlan0"
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psdasilva
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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After all this time I am still having this problem!
Am I alone? Any help?
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