Yet another WiFi connection problem!

[eamann]

Hello everyone!

Thanks first of all to the people who take the time to reply to our newbie questions!

Installed Kubuntu 6.06 on my Acer Travelmate 800 laptop and to my consternation I cannot connect to Internet via my WiFi connection. (Luckily I kept Windows and am able to use it to surf this Forum and send this SOS.)

I have checked the status of my connection in various sections and the answers are not coherent. Can anyone please help me to understand what they are saying and suggest what action I should take?

(I have also carried out various commands like iwconfig, pppoeconf, dhclinet, and dpkg -s pppoeconf and I have pasted the info into a OO doc, but I cannot for the moment transfer the file from Kubuntu to Windows. I hope to solve that problem tonight and will post the doc here when I succeed.)

KInfocentre: Network Interfaces: l0 IP address 127 0 0 1, Network Mask 255 0 0 0, Loopback, Up, HWaddr: 00 00 00 00 00 00

System settings/network settings: Eth1 enabled but no IP address - but in previous visits to this section the IP address was given. (I have configured Eth1 as DHCP, automatic, Wep, my key, ASCII; the DNS settings are correct.)

KMenu/Internet/Wlan Manager: Radio off, no networks available. (Until today's session my WiFi has always been shown as present. I must have unawares changed something which has resulted in it no longer being operative.)

Once again, thank you for taking time to help!

Best wishes,

eamann

[eamann]

Re: Yet another WiFi connection problem!

Here's an additional input which may help:

when I do "iwconfig", Kubuntu identifies eth1 as my wireless link, but says that the access point is not associated. How do I associate it?

[eamann]

Re: Yet another WiFi connection problem!

Hello!

Here is the technical data I mentioned in my first post:

Reply to iwconfig:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 unassociated ESSID:"Bealach runda" 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
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


Reply to “sudo pppoeconf”:

Sorry, I scanned 2 interfaces, but the Access Concentrator of your provider did not respond. Please check your network and modem cables. Another reason for the scan failure may also be another running pppoe process which controls the modem.

Reply to “dpkg -s pppoeconf”:

Package: pppoeconf
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 308
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 1.8ubuntu2
Depends: whiptail-provider | whiptail, ppp (>= 2.4.2+20040428-2) | pppoe (>= 3.0), ppp (>= 2.4.1.uus2-4), gettext-base (>= 0.13), sed (>= 3.95)
Recommends: locales
Suggests: xdialog
Description: configures PPPoE/ADSL connections
Userfriendly tool for initial configuration of a DSL (PPPoE) connection.

Reply to dhclinet:

Listening on LPF/eth1/00:04:23:59:3b:99
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:04:23:59:3b:99
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:c0:9f:28:13:18
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:c0:9f:28:13:18
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database – sleeping.

Contents of etc/network/interfaces:

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
wireless-essid Bealach runda
wireless-key s:8c3e3103ec

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp


iface dsl-provider inet ppp
provider dsl-provider

[jrsoit]

Re: Yet another WiFi connection problem!

you could try my post, but i am not sure if ndiswrapper covers built-in wifi adapters, but it might be worth a shot, good luck.

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...29779#msg29779

[eamann]

Re: Yet another WiFi connection problem!

Thanks for taking the time to reply!

I have read quickly through your how-to. I'm not sure that it applies to my case. The Wireless Manager recognises my router but cannot connect me to Internet. I can however connect to Internet when I use my ethernet cable. My problem may just be a question of configuration. I am going to surf around a bit this weekend to see if I find any other leads.

Best wishes,

Eamann