False wifi connection on netbook HP Mini with Atheros AR9285
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Hi fredk661682, thank you for answering me.fredk661682 wrote:If you run " iwconfig " in a terminal, how much is tx-power ?
The Tx-power shown is 20dBm
Actually the whole message on the wlan0 side is:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"xxxxyyyyzzzz'
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.432 GHz Access Point : F3:...........
Bit Rate=0 fct/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off
Power Management:on
Link Quality=47/70 Signal level=-63 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
What does this say to you, anything usefull?
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Thank you fredk661682!fredk661682 wrote:I see you are connected to ESSID:"xxxxyyyyzzzz' with Encryption key:off .
Did you enter a password ?
Can you run " iwlist scan " in a terminal to see if the access point : F3......... has "Encryption key:off "
Yes, I did enter the password, no doubt about it. I do not understand that thing with "Encryption key:off". The key must have been definitely on, Puppy has asked me for the passphrase. Also, I have tested the wifi connection in Windows on the same netbook and I have been asked for the passphrase.
The network security was supposed to be set for WPA2-PSK with AES, why the key that has been given to me would not be on? Would that be possible to have the encryption key off on the router and yet being asked for the password on the netbook?
I will run that "iwlist scan" only in a few days when I will get to that place again.
Which are the equivalent windows commands for these Linux "iw config" and "iwlist scan" that you have given me, please? Being again in that location I would like to run the same diagnosys under Windows, where the netbook is working OK on that wifi network.
Then maybe we can understand better what is going wrong. Thank you!
I think I'm having the same issue, ran the iwconfig and it showed :
Then I ran iwlist scan
I'm literally coping it by hand from one screen/computer to another, so I may have made some mistakes and I got lazy at the end and didn't put it all (IE: Unknown, etc), but let me know if you need that.
I've tried the three different connection managers (Barry's Simple, Frisbee and Network Wizard) and they generally give me the same results, connection but no actual internet connection. This computer I'm writing from is using sabayon (gentoo) and is connecting to the same wireless router.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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wlan0
IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID: "router's name"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point: ...
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=62/70 Signal level=-48 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: ...
Chanel: 7
Frequency2.442 GHz (Channel 7)
Quality=66/70 Signal level=-44dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"router's name"
Bit Rates: 1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s ... 54 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf-000001d8...
Extra: Last beacon: 13ms ago
IE: Unknown....
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) :PSK
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Cipher (2) : CCMP TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: Unknown...
I've tried the three different connection managers (Barry's Simple, Frisbee and Network Wizard) and they generally give me the same results, connection but no actual internet connection. This computer I'm writing from is using sabayon (gentoo) and is connecting to the same wireless router.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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It seems that the Encryption key from iwconfig is not the same then the Encryption key from iwlist (http://linux.die.net/man/8/iwconfig). Sorry
Do you have an ip address (inet addr) ? : you may run " ipinfo " in a terminal or left click on the network icon.
If yes, you may run " ping <your inet addr> " to see if something is transmitted, or try " traceroute google.com " (ctrl c to stop)
Do you have an ip address (inet addr) ? : you may run " ipinfo " in a terminal or left click on the network icon.
If yes, you may run " ping <your inet addr> " to see if something is transmitted, or try " traceroute google.com " (ctrl c to stop)
I see also " Bit Rate=0 fct/s ": you may try to change it by " iwconfig wlan0 rate 2M ".# ping 192.168.182.11
PING 192.168.182.11 (192.168.182.11) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.182.11: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.053 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.182.11: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.043 ms
^C
--- 192.168.182.11 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.043/0.048/0.053/0.005 ms
so I checked for the IP and had an internal router assigned one and tried to ping it and got 100% failure on that. Wanting to try everything before reposting I did the wconfig wlan0 to 2M and that seemed to work, just as a test, brought up a website and bingo, I think that last thing did it.
thanks a lot! Hope this helps the OP too.
(From a previous post, I don't have access to the router web config so I wasn't able to find if the connection is double or single wide)
thanks a lot! Hope this helps the OP too.
(From a previous post, I don't have access to the router web config so I wasn't able to find if the connection is double or single wide)
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