Connection Attempts Hang / Aborted druing IP COnfiguration

English Network/Internet
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Two notes before I begin.

  1. Yes I read the sticky in this forum.
  2. I have gotten my card working a dozen times on 10.3(after every kernel update) but I switched to 11 and have no luck.

I am using ndiswrapper because thats what worked for me in the past.

But when I use Knetworkmanager to connect to the visible network
(yes I can scan and list all available networks!)
the little progress bar always hangs when it gets to ‘IP Configuration’

I attacked the issue from my router side. It claims to be dolling out an IP address to the correct MAC of my card everytime i try to connect.

I tried disabling ipv6 because dmesg would report ‘no ipv6 routers present’ so i thought my card was trying to force ipv6 on my router.

So In summary;

  • I can view visible networks
  • My router assigns an IP on its side
  • Knetworkmanager hangs on ‘IP Configuration’
  • I am unable to ping my access point

Any ideas?
Is there any way to get a more verbose output from knetworkmanager?
I would be so grateful to resolve this.

Details:
Box: Dell 9100
Card: RaLink RT2561/RT61 (Wmp54g Pci v 4.1)
Vendor Code: 1814:0301
SuSE: 11

2

Try changing the channel on the wireless router,sometimes interference can stop a device from connecting

Andy

3

Thanks Andy

My router automatically scans channels to find the one with the lowest interference.

Do you reccomend i manually set one? (could the autoscan in fact be part of the problem?

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probably best to set a channel. depending on your router,IIRC, channels 1-6 overlap & channels 7-9 overlap, 10-13 overlap ( non european countries 10-11 overlap )

Andy

5

Andy

Thanks for the continued help.

I set the channel to 6 since my neighbor is on 11.

I’m still having the same issue.

How about some general options like;
-> update hostname via dhcp
-> request broadcast response
-> change Default Route via dhcp

It must be a setting unique to wireless.

If I run a cable into the router it conencts and gets an IP just fine. ONly the wireless card has trouble negotiating the IP.

I’m stumped.

Firmware is in my /lib/firmware directory, but if i remove the configuration for my card and try to set it up again i get a message

“this device requires firmware to operate. if you have already installed the firmware continue. Otherwise install and return to this dialog”

Does that mean it cannot find my firmware, or is it a general catch all.

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heres the ouput of network manager…

alot of settings say empty, discarding, is this normal?

onnection::GetSecretsAsync for setting 802-11-wireless-security, id 0
Connection::slotSecretsNeeded 802-11-wireless-security, new: no
WirelessSecurity::toSecretsMap
SendGetSecretsReply1 id 0
SendGetSecretsReply2
  Processing Setting 'connection'
ConnectionSetting::toSecretsMap
  Setting 'connection' is empty, discarding
  Processing Setting 'ipv4'
ConnectionSetting::toSecretsMap
  Setting 'ipv4' is empty, discarding
  Processing Setting '802-11-wireless'
ConnectionSetting::toSecretsMap
  Setting '802-11-wireless' is empty, discarding
  Processing Setting '802-11-wireless-security'
WirelessSecurity::toSecretsMap
  Attach setting '802-11-wireless-security'
    group: <list>  <string>tkip</string>  <string>ccmp</string> </list>
    key-mgmt: <string>wpa-psk</string>
    pairwise: <list>  <string>tkip</string>  <string>ccmp</string> </list>
    psk: <string>0a0e2b12ddbcf473ae37b22b55bb04e8f0f01727d4ae48f65044320d270819d7</string>
  Processing Setting '802-1x'
IEEE8021x::toSecretsMap
  Setting '802-1x' is empty, discarding
Connection::GetSecretsAsync for setting 802-11-wireless-security, id 0
Connection::slotSecretsNeeded 802-11-wireless-security, new: yes
ConnectionStore::slotSecretsNeeded
Storage::hasSecretsStored