Hey friends
Got a laptop with a RTL8187B wlan card, installed opensuse 11.2 on a 50gb partition. Card was detected straight away but only connects when I enter ip addresses manually, DHCP don’t work.
When it is connected it always stays at a speed of 1mb/s and it cannot ping my router or anything else.
Me kernel is 2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop
Searched around the forums but no love, tried compat-wireless but it started crying about dependencies. Modprobed it too…
Help would be lovely been at it for a few days now, some website said that the 11.1 kernel is supposed to support it.
On 01/07/2010 11:36 AM, kirbyfan89 wrote:
>
> Hey friends
>
> Got a laptop with a RTL8187B wlan card, installed opensuse 11.2 on a
> 50gb partition. Card was detected straight away but only connects when I
> enter ip addresses manually, DHCP don’t work.
>
> When it is connected it always stays at a speed of 1mb/s and it cannot
> ping my router or anything else.
>
> Me kernel is 2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop
>
> Searched around the forums but no love, tried compat-wireless but it
> started crying about dependencies. Modprobed it too…
>
> Help would be lovely been at it for a few days now, some website said
> that the 11.1 kernel is supposed to support it.
11.1 and 11.2 do support the RTL8187B. You do not need compat-wireless.
I suspect you are being hit by the bugs that affect routing and DHCP.
If you have any way to connect with a wire, then an update should fix your
problems. If not, then please post the output of the following:
/usr/sbin/iwconfig
sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
/sbin/route -n
cat /etc/resolv.conf
jack@linux-6qtx:~> /usr/sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"SpeedTouch781490"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:11:F5:41:51:CE
Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=61/70 Signal level=-49 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
jack@linux-6qtx:~> sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
root's password:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:F5:41:51:CE
Channel:1
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality=54/70 Signal level=-56 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"SpeedTouch781490"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=00000029aa60f1a8
Extra: Last beacon: 1710ms ago
IE: Unknown: 00105370656564546F756368373831343930
IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
IE: Unknown: 030101
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: Unknown: 2F0100
IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
IE: Unknown: DD050010180101
Cell 02 - Address: 00:1E:2A:E5:B3:3E
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=60/70 Signal level=-50 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"JUJU"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
Bit Rates:24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=0000038abab22069
Extra: Last beacon: 1367ms ago
IE: Unknown: 00044A554A55
IE: Unknown: 010882848B0C12961824
IE: Unknown: 030106
IE: Unknown: 0706444520010D14
IE: Unknown: 200100
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: Unknown: 32043048606C
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101830003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
IE: Unknown: DD0900037F0101003DFF7F
IE: Unknown: DD1A00037F0301000000001E2AE5B33E061E2AE5B33E64002C013D08
Cell 03 - Address: 00:24:B2:35:CD:B8
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality=40/70 Signal level=-70 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"NETGEAR"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=0000005753cccd41
Extra: Last beacon: 796ms ago
IE: Unknown: 00074E455447454152
IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
IE: Unknown: 03010B
IE: Unknown: 2A0104
IE: Unknown: 2F0104
IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
IE: Unknown: 2D1A0C181AFFFF000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: 3D160B001700000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: DD710050F204104A00011010440001021041000100103B00010310470010000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0EBB1021000744474E323030301023000744474E323030301024000631323334353610420004313233341054000800060050F20400011011000744474E32303030100800020088
IE: Unknown: DD090010180204F4050000
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
IE: Unknown: DD1E00904C330C181AFFFF000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: DD1A00904C340B001700000000000000000000000000000000000000
jack@linux-6qtx:~> /sbin/route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 2 0 0 wlan0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
jack@linux-6qtx:~> cat /etc/resolv.conf
### /etc/resolv.conf file autogenerated by netconfig!
#
# Before you change this file manually, consider to define the
# static DNS configuration using the following variables in the
# /etc/sysconfig/network/config file:
# NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SEARCHLIST
# NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SERVERS
# NETCONFIG_DNS_FORWARDER
# or disable DNS configuration updates via netconfig by setting:
# NETCONFIG_DNS_POLICY=''
#
# See also the netconfig(8) manual page and other documentation.
#
# Note: Manual change of this file disables netconfig too, but
# may get lost when this file contains comments or empty lines
# only, the netconfig settings are same with settings in this
# file and in case of a "netconfig update -f" call.
#
### Please remove (at least) this line when you modify the file!
Thanks for the help so far lwfinger, I have already updated using a wireless gateway of mine that I let my brother use for xbox live.
On 01/07/2010 12:56 PM, kirbyfan89 wrote:
> jack@linux-6qtx:~> /sbin/route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 2 0 0 wlan0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
Your iwconfig output indicates that the device has authenticated and associated,
but your routing table is wrong. If you do the following, your network should
come up:
sudo /sbin/route add default gw 10.0.0.1
sudo echo “nameserver 8.8.8.8” >> /etc/resolv.conf
I’m guessing that your router is at 10.0.0.1. If it is somewhere else, then you
need to adjust the above.
Are you using NetworkManager or ifup?
I’m using the default network manager. I got it working! I turned off manual ip and waited for it to be “active” once that happened I used the first command you said and it works.
Only down side is that every time I turn on the laptop I have to type in the command again :s
Any ideas?
On 01/07/2010 11:46 PM, kirbyfan89 wrote:
>
> I’m using the default network manager. I got it working! I turned off
> manual ip and waited for it to be “active” once that happened I used the
> first command you said and it works.
>
> Only down side is that every time I turn on the laptop I have to type
> in the command again :s
Use YaST to do the system updates. That will fix the routing problem.
I’m already fully updated, any other ideas friend?
On 01/08/2010 07:26 PM, kirbyfan89 wrote:
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> I’m already fully updated, any other ideas friend?
Using the NM applet, go to Manage Connections => Wireless, highlight your
connection and click Edit. On the IP Address tab, pull down the widget in the
lower right-hand corner to Routes and make sure that both boxes are unchecked.
If neither was, delete the connection and remake it.
It worked! Thanks so much