I’ve looked at the stickies, and helpful as they were, I just don’t get around this…
Now, I’m not quite a noob, but I haven’t had any experience with wireless in Linux until now. At least I know what the terminal is. (And I must say it’s quite the task finding it in the Gnome-menu in 11.1…) My equipment is a Toshiba Sat. Pro L300-1CZ (with added RAM, phew) and a Realtek 8187B. I know this because that’s what preinstalled Vista and the associated drivers from Toshiba’s repository says. lsusb lists it as 0bda:8198, however.
Formatting slightly altered from actual screen output, but you get the idea.
Onto the array of command-output:
YaST Hardware information:
(Of interest? I found a network interface using the driver rtl8187, name wlan0.)
Network card is reported as RTL8187B_WLAN_Adapter (wlan0), bus- and driver-entries look ok to me. (Driver used: rtl8187, active and modprobed.) Device-name wlan0 is listed on at least two different places - is that good?
Kernel-driver: rtl8187 (well, SHOCKER!)
I don’t know what the Resources-tab has to add to the discussion, so I’ll leave it alone. It looks like only a summary of what the device supports, and not what I’m trying to actually use.
Wireless LAN: Yes
There is another tree-entry for Wireless LAN (the one I just quoted was from Network hardware or whatever it’s called), but it doesn’t appear to report anything that hasn’t been listed already.
sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan:
wlan 0 Scan completed:
Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:F5:5B:DB:A9
ESSID:“Graskallakastali”
Mode:Master
Channel:1
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality=26/100 Signal level:-58 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:<lots of them, really…>
Extra:tsf=0000012a90387189
Extra: Last beacon: 1812ms ago
Cell 02 - A different network I don’t have access to (or shouldn’t, anyway - they don’t have an encryption)
NetworkManager: Mode is Infrastructure, BSSID and MAC-address fields are left empty. Wireless security set to WEP 40/128-bit key, key entered, Set as Available to all users. (Which is only me.) Settings for IPv4 are set to Automatic method (DHCP), Router and client ID left untouched.
Reports connection established.
sudo /usr/sbin/iwconfig:
wlan0:
IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"Graskallakastali"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:11:F5:5B:DB:A9
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key: <Looks exactly as I entered it! Imagine that!> Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=24/100 Signal level:-59 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
/sbin/ifconfig:
wlan0:
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:63:93:F0:D8
inet addr:192.168.1.72 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::221:63ff:fe93:f0d8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1142 <0 errors, drops, overruns or frames>
TX packets:346 <0 errors, drops, overruns, carriers or collisions> txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:56396 TX bytes:46726
The only other interface reporting an ‘inet addr’ is the loopback. Note that the computer (laptop) I’m writing this from has an IP-address ending with 1.69.
ping -c 5 192.168.1.1:
Reports destination host unreachable. Pinging .72 (myself) works like it should. Pinging the laptop at .69 is another unreachable host.
IPv6 is most likely enabled at this point. So, what should I do from here?