I’m using an atheros card with opensuse driver ath9k. It is an acer extensa laptop. I haven’t had much luck with the atheros card so I go an encore wireless USB adapter. This is what I get when I type iwconfig. wlan0 is the USB adapter.
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan1 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management: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
wmaster1 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:“CHEWBACA”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:1F:B3:0A:87:E9
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:4341-4645-3434-4641-4345-0000-00 Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level:-17 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
kwifimanager says that I’m connected to my router at 22 Mbit/s. The access point is a hex address. But it says the local IP is unavailable. Signal strength is 88. I am using managed mode with an ascii password to the router. I still can’t connect to the internet through wireless. Anyone have any idea what I’m doing wrong?
If you are connected to the router & have an ip address, there may be a problem with the router.Are you dual-booting ? if so, can you connect via the other O.S. ? Also check:
1 ) firewall
2 ) ipv6 is off
3 ) wep/wpa keys are correct
4 ) router is set up correctly
5 ) see lwfinger’s sticky at the start of the forum
blade2 wrote:
> I’m using an atheros card with opensuse driver ath9k. It is an acer
> extensa laptop. I haven’t had much luck with the atheros card so I go an
> encore wireless USB adapter. This is what I get when I type iwconfig.
> wlan0 is the USB adapter.
>
>
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
>
> wlan1 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:""
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point:
> Not-Associated
> Tx-Power=0 dBm
> Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
> Encryption key:off
> Power Management: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
>
> wmaster1 no wireless extensions.
>
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:“CHEWBACA”
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point:
> 00:1F:B3:0A:87:E9
> Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
> Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
> Encryption key:4341-4645-3434-4641-4345-0000-00 Security
> mode:open
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality=100/100 Signal level:-17 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
This output indicates that your interface has associated and
authenticated with the access point. BTW, you shouldn’t post the
encryption key. All other info poses no risk. If you do not run
/usr/sbin/iwconfig as root, then no critical information will be listed.
> kwifimanager says that I’m connected to my router at 22 Mbit/s. The
> access point is a hex address. But it says the local IP is unavailable.
> Signal strength is 88. I am using managed mode with an ascii password to
> the router. I still can’t connect to the internet through wireless.
> Anyone have any idea what I’m doing wrong?
Your problem is that you are not getting an IP address, your routing
is not correct, or your DNS is not correctly setup.
You can check these in order by:
/sbin/ifconfig wlan1
If that shows an IP address for wlan1 and you didn’t assign one, then
the next step is to test routing. Run the command
ping -c 5 66.70.73.150
This address is that of www.samba.org. If this fails, post the output
of ‘/sbin/route -n’. If the previous step worked, the final test is
to check name server lookup. Run the command
Thanks Larry and deltaflyer for the help. It turns out it was just a configuration mistake. The solution was just to input the router password as hexadecimal instead of passphrase or ascii. It never occurred to me to try that.
I should also mention that both the built in atheros card and the USB adapter work fine. The speed for the atheros card is reported as 1 Mbit/s while the USB adapter at 22Mbit/s, but I’m guessing both have the same speed. And I guess I’ll have to change my router password now, but that’s no big deal.