Dear Friends,
I use an IBM ThinkPad R51 notebook. I have Kubuntu Fiesty Fawn installed along with Windows XP. A few weeks back I had gone to a friend's place where there was a WiFi network. Kubuntu picked up the network right away and KNetworkManager showed all available networks. Recetly I got wireless broadband installed at home. Works without a hitch with Win XP. Initially Kubuntu detected the wifi and asked for an ESSID and WEP password. I got confused and tried to manually edit the connection, eth1.
Ever since then, my wifi has got knocked out. The light on the console which blinks when a wifi network is being searched for / connected to, never lights up now. Interestingly, I am able to connect easily by configuring my eth0 interface for the ethernet port (wired connection). I think I have deactivated my wifi card by some small error. The following is the relevant portion of the output for some diagnostic commands I ran
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
irda0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 unassociated ESSID:"WA3002G4"
Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thr
ff Fragment thrff
Encryption key:4546-4243-3432-3431-3741-0000-00 Security modepen
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
lshw
*-network:1
description: Wireless interface
product: PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@02:02.0
logical name: eth1
version: 05
serial: 00:16:6f:5b:6b:42
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipw2200 driverversion=1.2.0kmprq firmware=ABG:9.0.2.6 (Mar 22 2005) ip=192.168.1.10 latency=64 link=no maxlatency=24 mingnt=3 multicast=yes wireless=unassociated
resources: iomemory:d0204000-d0204fff irq:11
ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:6F:5B:6B:42
inet addr:192.168.1.10 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::216:6fff:fe5b:6b42/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5566 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000 Memory:d0204000-d0204fff
I feel it is some very small thing that I am missing. I would be grateful if someone could analyze these and help me out in getting wifi working.
Thanks.
I use an IBM ThinkPad R51 notebook. I have Kubuntu Fiesty Fawn installed along with Windows XP. A few weeks back I had gone to a friend's place where there was a WiFi network. Kubuntu picked up the network right away and KNetworkManager showed all available networks. Recetly I got wireless broadband installed at home. Works without a hitch with Win XP. Initially Kubuntu detected the wifi and asked for an ESSID and WEP password. I got confused and tried to manually edit the connection, eth1.
Ever since then, my wifi has got knocked out. The light on the console which blinks when a wifi network is being searched for / connected to, never lights up now. Interestingly, I am able to connect easily by configuring my eth0 interface for the ethernet port (wired connection). I think I have deactivated my wifi card by some small error. The following is the relevant portion of the output for some diagnostic commands I ran
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
irda0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 unassociated ESSID:"WA3002G4"
Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thr
ff Fragment thrffEncryption key:4546-4243-3432-3431-3741-0000-00 Security mode
penPower Management
ffLink 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
lshw
*-network:1
description: Wireless interface
product: PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@02:02.0
logical name: eth1
version: 05
serial: 00:16:6f:5b:6b:42
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipw2200 driverversion=1.2.0kmprq firmware=ABG:9.0.2.6 (Mar 22 2005) ip=192.168.1.10 latency=64 link=no maxlatency=24 mingnt=3 multicast=yes wireless=unassociated
resources: iomemory:d0204000-d0204fff irq:11
ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:6F:5B:6B:42
inet addr:192.168.1.10 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::216:6fff:fe5b:6b42/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5566 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000 Memory:d0204000-d0204fff
I feel it is some very small thing that I am missing. I would be grateful if someone could analyze these and help me out in getting wifi working.
Thanks.
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