Hey, I have installed Suse 11.4 from the Gnome liveCD, and I “can” access my home network when it is unsecured, however, I can’t access it when WEP is turned on. Now, I know that WEP is insecure but there are devices on the network that only supports WEP so the router settings can’t be changed. Also just for testing purposes i have tried the WPA2 encryption method to no avail (dmesg reports that the connection timed out). The only encryption method that looks promising is the open-wep encryption. When trying to connect to the network (with open-wep turned on) I have performed a bit of checking to see what is going on, now I don’t know much about in-depth linux and stuff but, below are the outputs from lsusb, dmesg, iwconfig, and ifconfig.
lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 077b:2219 Linksys WUSB11 V2.6 802.11b Adapter
dmesg
301.510073] wlan0: authenticate with 00:17:9a:28:ea:6c (try 1)
301.512664] wlan0: authenticated
301.930021] wlan0: associate with 00:17:9a:28:ea:6c (try 1)
301.933078] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:17:9a:28:ea:6c (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
301.933087] wlan0: associated
309.508109] ieee80211 phy0: wlan0: No probe response from AP 00:17:9a:28:ea:6c after 500ms, disconnecting.
312.019147] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
312.052743] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
312.052753] (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
312.052760] (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
312.052765] (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
312.052771] (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
312.052776] (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
312.052782] (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
314.225474] wlan0: authenticate with 00:17:9a:28:ea:6c (try 1)
314.227524] wlan0: authenticated
314.641393] wlan0: associate with 00:17:9a:28:ea:6c (try 1)
314.644709] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:17:9a:28:ea:6c (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
314.644718] wlan0: associated
319.848103] ieee80211 phy0: wlan0: No probe response from AP 00:17:9a:28:ea:6c after 500ms, disconnecting.
iwconfig
initial check
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"The Network"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:17:9A:28:EA:6C
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:XXXX-YYXX-XX
Power Management:off
Link Quality=8/100 Signal level=8/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
after about 5 seconds
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"The Network"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:17:9A:28:EA:6C
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:XXXX-YYXX-XX
Power Management:off
Link Quality=7/100 Signal level=7/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
after about 10 more seconds
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
where X=Number, Y=Letter
ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:25:B1:09:65
inet6 addr: fe80::206:25ff:feb1:965/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:54 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:16390 (16.0 Kb)
I would really appreciate it if someone could shed some light on what’s going on, and whether or not this is fixable.
Thanks