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**oshunluvr** · Feb 27, 2011, 09:47 AM

Re: WirelessLAN issue, as well as connecting to a hidden wireless network

Couple of points:

1. Using WICD there's an option to manually enter the ESSID for a hidden network. I don't know about knetworkmanager but I suspect it's there somewhere.

2. Saying "the card is giving difficulties" is not going to get you any help. It simply doesn't have any information and no request for help. Please read the ReadMe link in my signature and try again.

3. Transferring files from one computer to another is simple enough with a USB drive or stick. However, until you know what files you need there's not much need to do that.

**Linkmaster** · Feb 27, 2011, 10:09 AM

Re: WirelessLAN issue, as well as connecting to a hidden wireless network

Saying "the card is giving difficulties" is not going to get you any help. It simply doesn't have any information and no request for help

This is the best way I could say it. The reason for that is because I'm not getting any wireless connection whatsoever. And I have no clue what is/is not causing this problem. Currently, knetworkmanager is on the computer, but I don't know how to install WICD. Does it come with the installation already, or do I have to download it from somewhere? I know how to compile stuff, I believe[if its a .tar.** file, I unzip it using fhz [filename] and then sudo make [filename] then sudo install, correct??].

**oshunluvr** · Feb 27, 2011, 10:12 AM

Re: WirelessLAN issue, as well as connecting to a hidden wireless network

Start by opening a terminal and typing iwconfig and ifconfig and reporting the results.

**Linkmaster** · Feb 27, 2011, 12:31 PM

Re: WirelessLAN issue, as well as connecting to a hidden wireless network

Here are the results:

iwconfig:

Code:

lo    no wireless extensions.

eth0   no wireless extensions.

wlan0   802.11bgn Nickname:"rtl8191SEVA2"
     Mode:Managed Frequency=2.452 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated  
     Bit Rate:300 Mb/s  
     Retry:on  RTS thr:off  Fragment thr:off
     Power Management:off
     Link Quality=10/100 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=-100 dBm
     Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
     Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0  Missed beacon:0

and

ifconfig

Code:

eth0   Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c8:0a:a9:cd:73:8d 
     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:42 Base address:0x6000 

lo    Link encap:Local Loopback 
     inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
     inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
     UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
     RX packets:196 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
     TX packets:196 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
     collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
     RX bytes:14352 (14.3 KB) TX bytes:14352 (14.3 KB)

wlan0   Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr f0:7b:cb:a4:5c:b4 
     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:18 Memory:f83d0000-f83d0100

I hope that gives what you need. Also, I apologize for the sloppy first message, I've been working on this computer for the last 36 hours, and I've become quite frustrated with it[I used Fedora, Kubuntu, KDE Mint 9, Windows 7, XP wouldn't work, and yeah. Frustration levels are through the roof :P]

**vinnywright** · Feb 27, 2011, 12:44 PM

Re: WirelessLAN issue, as well as connecting to a hidden wireless network

well wlan0 looks to be UP and recognized by the system........................you say network manager dosent see any wireless access points ?

what have you done to try to conect.............have you tyed to add a wirless conection manualey and typed in the "hidden "ESSID" (SSID as you will see it in the setup dialog box)

and try this in a terminal

Code:

sudo iwlist scan

and post the output.

VINNY

**Linkmaster** · Feb 27, 2011, 01:22 PM

Re: WirelessLAN issue, as well as connecting to a hidden wireless network

I've fiddled around with the knetworkmanager, but nothing shows up. I tried to put in "hidden [SSID]" in the SSID box, but that didn't help do anything.

And here is sudo iwlist scan:

Code:

lo    Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0   Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0   Scan completed :
     Cell 01 - Address: 00:0C:CE:83:77:F7
          ESSID:"<hidden>\x00"
          Protocol:IEEE802.11b
          Mode:Master
          Channel:6
          Encryption key:off
          Bit Rates:11 Mb/s
          Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 5.5 11 
          Quality=68/100 Signal level=-74 dBm Noise level=-104 dBm
          Extra: Last beacon: 134ms ago
     Cell 02 - Address: 00:0C:CE:F2:BB:C3
          ESSID:"<hidden>\x00"
          Protocol:IEEE802.11b
          Mode:Master
          Channel:6
          Encryption key:off
          Bit Rates:11 Mb/s
          Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 5.5 11 
          Quality=50/100 Signal level=-74 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
          Extra: Last beacon: 139ms ago
     Cell 03 - Address: 00:0C:CE:85:7C:77
          ESSID:"<hidden>\x00"
          Protocol:IEEE802.11b
          Mode:Master
          Channel:11
          Encryption key:off
          Bit Rates:11 Mb/s
          Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 5.5 11 
          Quality=47/100 Signal level=-72 dBm Noise level=-93 dBm
          Extra: Last beacon: 67ms ago
     Cell 04 - Address: 00:0C:CE:91:CE:29
          ESSID:"<hidden>\x00"
          Protocol:IEEE802.11b
          Mode:Master
          Channel:6
          Encryption key:off
          Bit Rates:11 Mb/s
          Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 5.5 11 
          Quality=47/100 Signal level=-73 dBm Noise level=-93 dBm
          Extra: Last beacon: 574ms ago

**vinnywright** · Feb 27, 2011, 01:50 PM

Re: WirelessLAN issue, as well as connecting to a hidden wireless network

if you click the scan button next to the SSID input feald dose it show?

usualey every thing between the " "in the iwlist scan ESSID line ....would go in the SSID filed of network manager but not shure about HIDDEN ones ........I do think I remember reading about trouble with hidden networks and Knetworkmanager .

you could try seating manually but networkmanager may interfere.........I think it used to go like this

enter the ESSID

Code:

iwconfig wlan0 essid <hidden>\x00

mabe withought the <hidden>

Code:

iwconfig wlan0 ap pick one

pick one of the ap's (address)in the scan

Code:

dhclient wlan0

may maynot nead sudo

VINNY

**vinnywright** · Feb 27, 2011, 02:04 PM

Re: WirelessLAN issue, as well as connecting to a hidden wireless network

nope that dont work no more

.....

VINNY

**Linkmaster** · Feb 27, 2011, 02:06 PM

Re: WirelessLAN issue, as well as connecting to a hidden wireless network

Yeah, I tried what you told me to do, the first two commands worked, then I punched in the last, and got this:

Code:

Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit [url]https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/[/url]

Listening on LPF/wlan0/f0:7b:cb:a4:5c:b4
Sending on  LPF/wlan0/f0:7b:cb:a4:5c:b4
Sending on  Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

**Linkmaster** · Feb 27, 2011, 07:46 PM

Re: WirelessLAN issue, as well as connecting to a hidden wireless network

I've just realized, it would probably be best for me to post this in the 10.10 network support section..what is the best thing that I should transfer over there, to make it easiest for the people who look there to resolve my problem? Since I don't know if this works the best in Newbie Support or not.

**Linkmaster** · Feb 27, 2011, 09:07 PM

Re: WirelessLAN issue, as well as connecting to a hidden wireless network[SOLVED]

So. Kubuntu 10.10 is even better than I thought it was. It recognized the wireless card without a hitch, it was connecting to the Hidden SSID that was throwing it off. I figured out how to connect it[by constant browsing and exploring/combination of commands]. Heres what any of you need to do to connect to a hidden wireless network, while using knetworkmanager.

1st, open up the 'manage connections' option by clicking on the manager plasmoid[applet] and click on 'wireless'. Create a new wireless network, with the name you prefer, and the actual SSID of the network. Then, apply and close all the tabs. Open a terminal, and put this code in:

Code:

sudo iwlist wlan0 scan essid "your hidden wireless name here"

having done that, you need to click on the network manager plasmoid again, and click "see more." At that point, it should show your network. I know this works for unsecured networks, and should in theory work with secured ones.

This shows the power of a terminal...thanks guys for your help anyways! Got me into thinking about using different commands, particularly the power 'scan' I got from Vinny! So once again, thanks! And my apologies to Oshunluvr for the bad message, once again, I was very frustrated. But I'm good now.

**oshunluvr** · Feb 27, 2011, 09:40 PM

Re: WirelessLAN issue, as well as connecting to a hidden wireless network[SOLVED]

Nothing you posted offended me or hurt my feelings so no apology required, I was just trying to help you get you the help you needed. I am amazed how quickly the "wi-fi" gurus on here jumped on it as soon as you posted some relevant information. See how well that worked?

I totally understand how it happens - we get stressed in those situations, especially when a buddy (or worse - girlfriend

) is looking on and we just can't find the answer.

I happy you got the help you needed. Now, on to the next issue!

**Linkmaster** · Feb 27, 2011, 09:59 PM

Re: WirelessLAN issue, as well as connecting to a hidden wireless network[SOLVED]

amen to that! Hopefully I can help some people out..I tend to stay on the newbie support posting, see if theres something I can throw my two cents in[helped awhile ago with a partitioning issue, that went nicely] and stuff like that. Thanks again, and everything is updating nicely.

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