Bugzilla – Bug 11847
Failed to get wireless working
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:13:42 UTC
Created attachment 5142 [details] /var/log/messages Anybody good at interpreting logs about wireless setup? I cannot get my fab4 to work on my wlan. Attached will be /var/log/messages. I added -dd to wpa_supplicant to try to get more useful info. My dhcp server sees no DHCP requests when fab4 tries to use wireless, but wpa_supplicant seems happy. The networking is setup such that the ethernet cable from fab4 goes into the 4port switch on my linksys WRT54GL AP. So the AP is seeing the same MAC address on both the wired and wireless side. This might make it a bit unhappy? I double checked the WEP key, it is the same as my laptop is using: eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"(AL)squared" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: 00:21:29:99:11:AE Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0 Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:2C7C-573B-718E-1AE6-3E3B-D1EF-92 Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality=93/100 Signal level=-35 dBm Noise level=-92 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 So i'm stuck scratching my head as to what is wrong.
Unfortunately WEP doesn't give any indication of what might be the issue when it doesn't connect. Also a WEP connection might look ok even if the WEP key is wrong. Could you try without ethernet connected just to rule that out? (I don't think that is the issue though as I do that all the time.) Also would it be possible to temporarily remove the WEP key altogether from your AP just to see if it's a general AP issue? Do you have MAC filtering on your AP turned on by any chance?
Maybe you are also running into a similar issue as in bug 11840? Could you therefore also try with a changed SSID, i.e. without the brackets? '(' and ')'?
The issue are special characters in SSID, i.e. "'" or "(" etc.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 11840 ***