I have 2 laptops, the server (IBM) and the workstation (HP).
The IBM has an old Netgear wg111v1.5 (fake v2), running on a USB1 port (11mb, 802.11b) in ad-hoc mode.
The HP has a Broadcom bcm4312v2.
The problem:
The HP will connect perfectly to the IBM when I boot into windows. However, when I boot into openSUSE 11, it finds the ad-hoc network, but refuses to connect.
I believe this is something to do with switching the HP to 802.11b mode (I assume that just means slow 11mb/s mode), as it defaults to 802.11g mode (which I assume means 54mb/sec mode).
I tried to switch the broadcom into 802.11b mode, but it refuses.
Unfortunately I don’t know how to get any useful adapter config info under windows vista, so I can’t check for differences in configuration.
Here is some (hopefully) useful info gathered from the HP:
iwconfig wlan0:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.462 GHz Cell: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 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
iwlist scan:
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: FE:00:00:00:00:00
ESSID:“wnet1200”
Mode:Ad-Hoc
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality=90/100 Signal level=-44 dBm Noise level=-73 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=0000000571bab357
ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1A:73:D5:00:3A
UP 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)
lspci:
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 02)
tail -F /var/log/NetworkManager:
Sep 3 20:39:10 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) starting connection ‘wnet1200’
Sep 3 20:39:10 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 3 → 4
Sep 3 20:39:10 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled…
Sep 3 20:39:10 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started…
Sep 3 20:39:10 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled…
Sep 3 20:39:10 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
Sep 3 20:39:10 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting…
Sep 3 20:39:10 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 4 → 5
Sep 3 20:39:10 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): connection ‘wnet1200’ requires no security. No secrets needed.
Sep 3 20:39:10 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Config: added ‘ssid’ value ‘wnet1200’
Sep 3 20:39:10 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Config: added ‘scan_ssid’ value ‘1’
Sep 3 20:39:10 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Config: added ‘key_mgmt’ value ‘NONE’
Sep 3 20:39:10 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
Sep 3 20:39:10 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Config: set interface ap_scan to 1
Sep 3 20:39:10 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 2 → 0
Sep 3 20:39:10 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 0 → 2
Sep 3 20:39:35 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): association took too long, failing activation.
Sep 3 20:39:35 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 5 → 9
Sep 3 20:39:35 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) failed for access point (wnet1200)
Sep 3 20:39:35 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Marking connection ‘wnet1200’ invalid.
Sep 3 20:39:35 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) failed.
Sep 3 20:39:35 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 9 → 3
Sep 3 20:39:35 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device.
Sep 3 20:39:35 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_device_802_11_wireless_set_ssid(): error setting SSID to ‘(null)’ for device wlan0: Invalid argument
Sep 3 20:39:35 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_device_802_11_wireless_set_mode(): error setting card wlan0 to mode 2: Device or resource busy
Sep 3 20:39:35 hp-laptop NetworkManager: <WARN> remove_network_cb(): Couldn’t remove network from supplicant interface: The requested network does not exist…