eircom wireless woes

limerick_woody

Hi Everyone,
I am trying to get wireless to work on my new eircom connection, using hte netopia router, on a Dell inspiron 9400 with an Intel 3945ABG wireless card. Running Mandriva 2008 and the ethernet connection works fine. I have setup the router without wireless encryption in case it was the security setup. The SSID is recognised fine, and the signal is strong,but it won't connect?? Any ideas what to look at?

Cheers

S

Hal1

Call eircom with the serial number underneath the router, they afaik have to unlock it over the internet so that they can edit the config page on the router.

limerick_woody

thanks, i will try that tomorrow - i wondered why i couldn't get it to work even on a laptop with xp installed!

bman

I don't know what sort of level your at with Linux so you may have already tried connecting through the CLI rather than through a GUI. But if you haven't then post up the output of running the commands iwconfig and ifconfig.

Call eircom with the serial number underneath the router, they afaik have to unlock it over the internet so that they can edit the config page on the router.

Why would he need to get eircom to open up the config page? You should be able to manage most of what you ever need to do with the routers 192.168.1.254 page.

Hal1

bman wrote: »

I don't know what sort of level your at with Linux so you may have already tried connecting through the CLI rather than through a GUI. But if you haven't then post up the output of running the commands iwconfig and ifconfig.



Why would he need to get eircom to open up the config page? You should be able to manage most of what you ever need to do with the routers 192.168.1.254 page.

Didn't realise this was in the unix form :eek:and not sure of commands:o. Just trying to help.

limerick_woody

Hi, using Mandriva i use the NetApplet to try and connect, it connects via ethernet no problem. Find below the commands requested - any ideas would be good. Do Eircom have to enable the router to anyone's knowledge (for wireless). My knowledge of linux is about 3 months old - so i can run most commands, but usually don't know what commands to run! Thanks for any help.

S



iwconfig:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 unassociated ESSID:off/any Nickname:"localhost"
Mode:Managed Frequency=nan kHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm
Retry limit:15 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:59 Missed beacon:0




ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:8B:C6:EB:C0
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::218:8bff:fec6:ebc0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6622 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4861 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5796462 (5.5 MiB) TX bytes:701444 (685.0 KiB)
Interrupt:17

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:77:20:38:7E
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:60 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:17 Base address:0x8000 Memory:efcff000-efcfffff

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:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:588 (588.0 b) TX bytes:588 (588.0 b)

oscarBravo

You're not associated. Can you try typing "iwconfig eth1 essid <your essid>" (making the necessary substitution, obviously)?

edit: You'll probably have to be root, or at least "sudo", to do this.

limerick_woody

I had a call with Eircom, between us we narrowed the problem down my cordless phone, it was interfering with the wireless signal - we changed the router to select a different channel and after a reboot of both router and laptop's, i now have both xp on my work laptop, and mandriva on my own laptop accessing the wireless signal - i don't understand the problem but it seems to work. Surely the router and the phone dont operate in the same frequency band?

Thanks for your time and advice regardless.

Sean

bman

Thats a strange one alright. Don't think I've heard of that problem before. At least your sorted now anyway.