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    [solved] Cannot get wireless connection with ASUS wifi card

    Hi,

    first of all, i am absolutely new to Kubuntu! Im feeling my way into it, quite blindly!

    Ive installed an ASUS wifi card, as the only way i can connect to the internet will be by wireless. Im working now (typing this) on a win XP machine connected by LAN to a BT home hub. The Kubuntu machine is next to it and sharing monitor/keyboard via a KVM switch. I cannot however physically connect it to the LAN!

    The machine seems to have recognised the card, and its found the BT hub, but i cannot connect. Ive entered the wireless key/password, the only thing i havent is the BSSID, but i dont know what this is?

    If i try and go online i get an error, of the usual 'have you spelt it right' form

    any ideas?
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    Re: Cannot get wireless connection with ASUS wifi card

    Hi....

    Welcome to the forums although I'm sorry to learn of the status of your last meal.

    According to Wikipedia, the definition of a BSSID...

    "A related field is the basic service set identifier (BSSID), which uniquely identifies each BSS (the SSID however, can be used in multiple, possibly overlapping, BSSs). In an infrastructure BSS, the BSSID is the MAC address of the wireless access point (WAP). In an IBSS, the BSSID is a locally administered MAC address generated from a 46-bit random number. The individual/group bit of the address is set to 0. The universal/local bit of the address is set to 1.

    A BSSID with a value of all 1s is used to indicate the broadcast BSSID. A broadcast BSSID may only be used during probe requests."

    A way to find your BSSID number can be found here. Click on "Linux."

    Also, would you open a terminal and run this command and post the output: lspci

    Hope this helps...
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      Re: Cannot get wireless connection with ASUS wifi card

      your first comment there confused me for a moment! I assume your refering to my user name! Its a play on my surname

      from what i can see, the wireless card is working. LSPCI -V returns info stating kernel driver in use is rt2500pci, and the device it says is an RaLink rt2500

      Likewise, if i go into the wireless network settings, it can 'see' my BT homehub, it tells me its signal strength, and the MAC address. So the wireless link is there, but it just wont connect via it.

      Im starting to think the BSSID isnt needed unless i want to lock the wifi to that one connection.

      Im sure that what is needed is to tell the machine to connect via this link, but i cant find any way to 'tell' it to do so!?

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        Re: Cannot get wireless connection with ASUS wifi card

        Originally posted by Barf
        your first comment there confused me for a moment! I assume your refering to my user name! Its a play on my surname
        Yes, my little joke.

        Two questions:

        1. If you click on the "K" Start button and then "Applications"--->"System"--->"Hardware Drivers," does anything come up for your wireless card? It may not, I'm just curious.

        2. What program are you using to connect (or attempt to connect) with? KNetwork Manager?

        Just to let you know, networking is a real weak area with me, I don't know much about it.

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          #5
          Re: Cannot get wireless connection with ASUS wifi card

          no 'hardware drivers' option under system on my machine?

          the browser on it is called 'reconq'
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            Re: Cannot get wireless connection with ASUS wifi card

            Originally posted by Barf
            no 'hardware drivers' option under system on my machine?
            Hi....

            There isn't an entry with an icon that looks like a PCI card? If not, open a terminal (under system as well,) and type in: jockey-kde

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              Re: Cannot get wireless connection with ASUS wifi card

              Open a Konsole and issue
              iwlist scanning

              and report back what is shown.
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                #8
                Re: Cannot get wireless connection with ASUS wifi card

                that would be
                Code:
                iwlist scan
                and you may/may not nead sudo.

                VINNY
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                  Re: Cannot get wireless connection with ASUS wifi card

                  Thanks for the catch, VINNY, I should have written "iwlist wlan0 scanning", or what ever the interface name was.
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                    Re: Cannot get wireless connection with ASUS wifi card

                    Originally posted by GreyGeek
                    Thanks for the catch, VINNY, I should have written "iwlist wlan0 scanning", or what ever the interface name was.
                    actually I knead to apologize .......I was saying it neaded to be "scan" instad of "scanning" .......but both work just fine sorey :P

                    the wlan0 CAN be left off and it will go through all the interfaces but only work on ones that support scanning

                    VINNY
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                      Re: Cannot get wireless connection with ASUS wifi card

                      Thanks chaps, i'll report back as soon as ive check those out. Its a real nightmare not having a direct conenction to the machine! using the KVM switch means i have to write down the info to transfer it! (must drag a USB stick out from somewhere so i can use a notepad program)

                      Originally posted by ardvark71
                      Originally posted by Barf
                      no 'hardware drivers' option under system on my machine?
                      Hi....

                      There isn't an entry with an icon that looks like a PCI card? If not, open a terminal (under system as well,) and type in: jockey-kde

                      Regards...
                      Hmm, yes, one app does have an icon that looks like a card. I think it says 'additional drivers' or maybe 'external' drivers?, i'll check. Either way, its empty
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                        Re: Cannot get wireless connection with ASUS wifi card

                        ok, done those, heres the result

                        jockey-kde brought up a window saying searching for additional drivers, this was followed by the previously mentioned 'additional drivers' window, which said no proprietary drivers in use

                        iwlist wlan0 scanning in Konsole terminal gave the report No Results


                        the network manager (from the 'task bar') shows my BT hub, its signal strength etc, and i 'think' ive all the details in correctly
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                          Re: Cannot get wireless connection with ASUS wifi card

                          I'M IN!!!!

                          or on, whichever way you want to look at it!

                          I decided to 'add' a new wireless connection, selected the BT hub from the 'scan' option, gave it the wireless key, set the encryption type, and told it to do it. It added an identical connection to the list as before, only this time, instead of saying 'never' under how often used, it said 0 minutes ago.

                          So, i deleted the first connection, started reconq browser, and im typing this now from the Kubuntu machine!

                          Looks like the thing just got a bit mixed up
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                            Re: Cannot get wireless connection with ASUS wifi card

                            Good job!

                            (Please edit your original post and add "[SOLVED]" in front of the subject line. Thanks.)
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                              #15
                              Re: Cannot get wireless connection with ASUS wifi card

                              Cool, I'm glad you got it working.

                              Regards...
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