Wireless nightmare - ipw2200

[Slackrat]

"Kihara Muriithi" a écrit profondement:

| Hi pals,
| 
| I have a laptop that I have been using for a long time - 2 years - a
| Toshiba satellite Pro. I haven't had a reason to complain until now. I
| have been using an ethernet cable all along, but I am in a situation
| where I seriously need wireless connection. This have proved to be not
| that easy.
| 
| The card the laptop have is ipw2200 from Intel. I have the necessary
| driver and firmware, according to the numerous web pages I have come
| across. The OS even does see it, but it wouldn't work. I have searched
| the net for a couple of days, but don't have a solution yet. Here is
| what I have:
| 
| dmesg info:
| [root at kerberos kihara]# dmesg | grep ipw
| ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.0kmprq
| ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
| ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
| ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
| ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
| 
| iwconfig
|           radio off  ESSID:off/any
|           Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Access Point: Not-Associated
|           Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power=off   Sensitivity=8/0
|           Retry limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
|           Encryption key:off
|           Power Management:off
|           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
| 
| [root at kerberos kihara]# dmesg | grep eth1

My wifi runs on ath0

My cable to the modem/router runs on ath0

I use madwifi and turn the wifi switch on front of my Toshiba laptop
'on'

in rc.local I have 
# Set up ath0 
/sbin/iwconfig ath0 channel 11
/sbin/iwconfig ath0 essid "freebox"
/sbin/iwconfig ath0 ap any
/sbin/iwconfig ath0 rate auto
/sbin/iwconfig ath0 rts 40
/sbin/iwconfig ath0 key 0D13-EF97-1D  
/sbin/iwconfig ath0 frag 512


in rc.inet1.conf
# Config information for eth0:
IPADDR[1]="192.168.0.1"
NETMASK[1]="255.255.255.0"
USE_DHCP[1]=""
DHCP_HOSTNAME[1]=""


# Config information for ath0:
IFNAME[0]="ath0"
IPADDR[0]="192.168.0.1"
NETMASK[0]="255.255.255.0"
USE_DHCP[0]=""
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""


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