A Couple Of Issues

[MikeEcho]

Hey guys,
I'm a Linux virgin who just installed Dapper on my Thinkpad X31 today. I seem to have managed the install and partitioning etc. and most things seem to be working.

I do however have a couple of issues. After a bit of a search, I have found I am too ignorant to understand the solutions given elsewhere.

First of all, I would quite like to install a trackpoint specific driver (perhaps). The PS/2 one is working, but it seems very jerky, and after playing around with the settings, I can't seem to get a comfortable result.

Second of all, The wireless card has been detected, but I am unable to connect to any networks. When I open up Wifimanager, it mentions me not having the correct privileges and 'sudo'. I can see available wireless networks, and enter settings, but it just doesn't want to connect to any of them.

I'm willing to bet that these are both simple things to solve, and hopefully learning the solutions to these problems will help me solve others I may encounter later.

Your help is much appreciated!

Mike

[sky]

Re: A Couple Of Issues

Hi,

Can you give more info about this wireless card, can you tell us what it is ?
Maybe by

sudo lspci

Cheers

[MikeEcho]

Re: A Couple Of Issues

Just ran that command. The Konsole scares me at the moment. I guess that'll change pretty quickly.

Network Controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini

[sky]

Re: A Couple Of Issues

Ok, sorry to have to scare you
I hope you will not be to scared also by what I will ask now... as I'm command line addict
So first open a konsole and type this :
sudo iwconfig
sudo ifconfig
sudo iwlist <name_of_your_interface_answering_for_iwconfig> scanning

Can you post all this please ?

[MikeEcho]

Re: A Couple Of Issues

This is the output from those commands:

Password:
lo no wireless extensions.

irda0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 unassociated ESSIDff/any Nickname:"ipw2100"
Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate=0 kb/s Tx-Powerff
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
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

mikemery@ThinkpadX31:~$ sudo ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:60:13:9F:B2
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:23:92:20:BF
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000 Memory:c0200000-c0200fff

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:35 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:35 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2540 (2.4 KiB) TX bytes:2540 (2.4 KiB)

mikemery@ThinkpadX31:~$ sudo iwlist eth1 scanning
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:0F:B5:1D:C2:A6
ESSID:"Derry"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Encryption keyn
Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 9 11 6 12 18 24 36 48 54
Quality:16 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Extra: Last beacon: 2900ms ago
Cell 02 - Address: 00:12:88:459:C1
ESSID:"2WIRE973"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:11
Encryption keyn
Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11 18 22 6 9 12 24 36 48 54
Quality:29 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Extra: Last beacon: 220ms ago
Cell 03 - Address: 00:0F:B5:BB0:62
ESSID:"NETGEAR"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:11
Encryption keyn
Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 9 11 6 12 18 24 36 48 54
Quality:27 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Extra: Last beacon: 1384ms ago
Cell 04 - Address: 00:18:39:10:8E:40
ESSID:"5firenZ."
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Encryption keyff
Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 24 36 48 54
Quality:23 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Extra: Last beacon: 12812ms ago
Cell 05 - Address: 00:12:A9:02:7A:1E
ESSID:"3Com"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Master
Channel:2
Encryption keyn
Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 24 36 48 54
Quality:25 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Extra: Last beacon: 2200ms ago
Cell 06 - Address: 00:50:18:47:B5:6A
ESSID:"Chesters"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:7
Encryption keyn
Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 22 24 36 48 54
Quality:16 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Extra: Last beacon: 1156ms ago
Cell 07 - Address: 00:14:6C9:F6:EC
ESSID:"NETGEAR"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:11
Encryption keyn
Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 24 36 48 54
Quality:16 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Extra: Last beacon: 12468ms ago

[sky]

Re: A Couple Of Issues

Hi,

You really have a lot of wifi in your neighbourhood
So, you're wifi interface is eth1

To configure your wifi, you need the name of your network (essid). If it's encrypted network, please tell us what encryption it uses (WEP, WPA), if it's not so open the file /etc/network/interfaces to add these lines :
kdesu kate /etc/network/interfaces

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless-essid <name_of_your_network>

If there's other lines about eth1, so remove these previous lines.
Then to restart network, type

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Or restart the computer.

Hope it helps

[MikeEcho]

Re: A Couple Of Issues

Yeah, sadly all of them are encrypted to some degree or another :P

The network is WEP encrypted, but even so I thought I'd fill out the file with what was given, as I'd previously tried to edit /etc/fstab to add in a partition for my documents without success.

I'm getting the same issue here with the wireless file. When I try to save I get an error.

This document could not be saved, as it was not possible to write to file:///etc/fstab

Check that you have write access to this file or that enough disc space is available.

I know there's enough disc space free, so it must be an access issue. Fair play for them trying to stop me messing up my system really.

I've loaded up the Wireless Assistant, and it asks me to log in, then tells me

You might have insufficient permissions for Wireless Assistant to function properly.

Did you run it using 'sudo'?

I'd really like to this application working, so that there's a GUI tool for wireless networks, and there must be a way to get it to work, it finds the networks, and displays them, just won't connect.

I think that's what was stopping me connecting. I'm off to have an explore to see if I can change anything using System Settings.

[sky]

Re: A Couple Of Issues

Did you try to launch it by sudo or kdesu ?
Anyway, if the network is only wep protected add one more line to the file I told you :
wireless-key <key>

To edit the file you need to enter "sudo" mode by typing "kdesu" in front of the gui you want to enter.

[cantab]

Re: A Couple Of Issues

Not directly related, but with all that other activity going on, I would suggest you use channel 1 for least interference.

[MikeEcho]

Re: A Couple Of Issues

Cantab: Good point, hadn't noticed that. Thanks.

And huzzah! The wireless is working!

Merci beaucoup Sky



Now to try and sort out this trackpoint....

[sky]

Re: A Couple Of Issues

Happy to see it solved your trouble
About trackball, sorry I've never used such device, anyway, I'm someone in here did...

Enjoy

[mandeep_kaur]

Re: A Couple Of Issues

Hi,

I had installed kubuntu 6.06 TLS on my laptop and I'm having trouble getting
my wireless to work
It has following specifications

* *Brand Name of Device*: Edge Laptop
* * Name/Number of Device Network Controller:* Intel Corporation
PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter
* * The Manufacturer/Device Id : *Intel Corporation Unknown Device 2522

The wireless light on the laptop is on but I am not able to get an
access to network applications.what happens is that I will type in the
Essid and the little configuration bubble will pop up and stall at 28%.
and I have compaq laptop. I had installed kubuntu 7.04 on it.
Following are the specifications of this laptop

* *Brand Name of Device: *Compaq Presario C555NR Notebook PC
* *Name/Number of Device Network Controller:* Broadcom Corporation
Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card
* *The Manufacturer/Device Id *: Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company
Unknown Device 1363

The problem I am facing with this laptop is the wireless light is not
enabled. Please suggest to rectify the above problems

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks

Mandeep Kaur

[dewclaw82]

Re: A Couple Of Issues

Hi, Mandeep,
Your question is not likely to get answered where it is. You might try the stuff mentioned in the earlier replies, but if that is not helping you, you should open a new topic.

Good luck