D-Link WBR-1310 Problems

[rikimenace]

Well I just got home from Afghanistan and my wife has been having problems with the linksys so I went out and got a D-Link wireless router. My current problem is that I can connect to it wireless as long as there is no encryption but as soon as i turn ANY encryption on (WEP or WPA1/2) i will not connect or pull an IP address from the DHCP pool.

So far I've tried:
1) assigning static IP's
2) using iwconfig to add the ESSID and assign IP's and Gateway
3) different programs to connect:
a) Wlassistant 0.5.5 (WEP)
b) Wlassistant 0.5.7
c) Knetworkmanager
d) Wicd Manager
4) Added my MAC to the MAC filters on the router.

I don't know what else to do... WPA works just fine on the linksys (when it wants to work) so i know WPA is working fine. Is it just D-Link that is messed up?

Here is my current IWCONFIG and IFCONFIG
iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"KnightHome" Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.462 GHz Access Point: Invalid
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm
RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=-256 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

ifconfig eth1:
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:A5:25:A6:E3
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:351 errors:0 dropped:31497 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2952 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:68576 (66.9 KiB) TX bytes:140108 (136.8 KiB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xc000


Thanks
Riki

[MoonRise]

Re: D-Link WBR-1310 Problems

Is this router a "Super G"? I have a DLINK 634M router that has a Super G mode that cause problems for me with getting a connection. This is true even for our Windows machines. Check to see if it is enabled. If it is disable it a let me know. We'll take it from there.

[rikimenace]

Re: D-Link WBR-1310 Problems

Box doesn't say it is a super G but it is B+G capable. looked all through the settings and did not see anything about Super G.

[MoonRise]

Re: D-Link WBR-1310 Problems

Oh!!! Seems as though I remember an odd thing with knetworkmanager. It's good and I like it way better than other versions and methods I used in past Kubuntus. Basically I had to manually set up the configuration for knetworkmanager. Instead of clicking on the entry of "seen" networks corresponding to your router (which prompts it to automatically configure) right click on the knetworkmanager icon. Click on "Connect to Other Wireless Network...". From there, enter your ESSID, Use encryption. Here choose for WEP "WEP 40/104-bit ASCII". For WEP this is what always kept me from getting connected. I had to choose that entry (for my Home router which is a DLINK 524). For WPA (at work) I had to choose WPA Personal with WPA1 (even though the router was set to use WPA2, this setting worked) and the WPA protocol was set to TKIP. Let me know if any of this makes sense and/or actually works.

[rikimenace]

Re: D-Link WBR-1310 Problems

nope no worky worky...

[MoonRise]

Re: D-Link WBR-1310 Problems

Does your Setup look somewhat like this?(attached pic) Also, for knetworkmanager to work for me, I had to make sure no other tools were installed and the /etc/network/interfaces configured as this:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

[rikimenace]

Re: D-Link WBR-1310 Problems

what version of KNetworkManager is that? I will try later on tonight.

Thanks

[MoonRise]

Re: D-Link WBR-1310 Problems

The picture is of my DLINK wireless. The "interfaces" file is what Kubuntu uses to set up the network interfaces. The version of knetworkmanager isn't shown, but is is what ever was released with Feisty.