FC2 iwconfig can't associate

[sevensola]

Hi,
Dell laptop with Cisco mini-PCI 802.11b nic. I probed the airo_cs driver and was able to use iwconfig to change the SSID and I noticed in the wireless applet that it had %'s bouncing around and when using the iwconfig command my AP mac address showed up. This confirmed that it was working just fine the first time I modprobed. Firmware on the NIC is 5.00.03.

However, since that first time I modprobed I can not get the NIC to associate anymore. I am using re.local to set the ssid and mode at boot up. Here is the output from iwconfig:

eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"777555"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442GHz Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=0/65535
Retry limit:16 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:176/10 Signal level:-102 dBm Noise level:-99 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:1 Missed beacon:0

As you can see it doesn't list the AP's mac address and my applet is showing an association at 100%. This is a dual boot laptop with WinXP and XP can associate just fine. No WEP keys are used.

Am I running into a bug?

output from rc.local:

#Load the module
echo "Loading eth0"
/sbin/modprobe airo_cs

# Set up the WiFi card

echo "Configuring eth0"
/sbin/iwconfig eth0 ESSID "777555"
/sbin/iwconfig eth0 mode Managed

# Get IP address from dhcp

/sbin/dhcpcd -t 10 -d eth0
[root@itdisgnb007 rc.d]#

output from ifcfg-eth0:

# Cisco Systems|350 Mini-PCI [airo_cs]
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=00:07:85:B30:AC
ONBOOT=no
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
IPV6INIT=no

Thanks,

[Picomp314]

ifcfg-eth0

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=00:07:85:B3:C0:AC
ONBOOT=no
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
IPV6INIT=no
ESSID=any

try using
dhclient eth0

[sevensola]

Picomp,
Thanks for replying. I am not even at the point where I can get DHCP. I can't associate to the AP at all. Using iwconfig I am able to set the SSID and that sticks in the configuration but doesn't associate to the AP. Even when I try to configure the AP mac address statically it doesn't help (doesn't show up in the config at all even though the command is successful) --> The iwconfig has the AP at fffffffffff which is broadcast and will not associate.

Any ideas on where I can start troubleshooting?

Thanks,

[Picomp314]

well like the above config said set the ESSID to any
one thing i have noticed, is that sometimes the card will not associate and you can still issue a dhclient eth0, dhclient seems to search for a suitable AP
using the file ifcfg-eth0 is much more reliable than iwconfig
here are the steps i personally use (after loading the necessary modules)

ifconfig eth0 up
dhclient eth0

if this doesn't work please give the output so i can base some further posts on that

[sevensola]

Picomp,
Here is what happened. Didn't work. I think I might be rolling back to RH9 as I could get everything I needed to work on it just fine. Not sure though...
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[root@itdisgnb007 root]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"777555"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442GHz Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=0/65535
Retry limit:16 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:176/10 Signal level:-102 dBm Noise level:-102 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth1 no wireless extensions.

cipsec0 no wireless extensions.

[root@itdisgnb007 root]#
[root@itdisgnb007 root]#
[root@itdisgnb007 root]# dhclient eth0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1rc14
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:07:85:b3:c0:ac
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:07:85:b3:c0:ac
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
[root@itdisgnb007 root]#
[root@itdisgnb007 root]#
[root@itdisgnb007 root]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"777555"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442GHz Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=0/65535
Retry limit:16 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:176/10 Signal level:-102 dBm Noise level:-102 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth1 no wireless extensions.

cipsec0 no wireless extensions.

[root@itdisgnb007 root]#
[root@itdisgnb007 root]#
[root@itdisgnb007 root]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_mixer_oss 13824 2
snd_intel8x0 26796 3
snd_ac97_codec 54788 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm 69256 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_timer 17284 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 8072 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport 3328 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart 4864 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 17444 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 6152 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 39396 10 snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm, snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_devi ce
soundcore 6112 3 snd
cisco_ipsec 393484 0
parport_pc 19392 1
lp 8236 0
parport 29640 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 12932 0
sunrpc 109924 1
3c59x 30504 0
airo_cs 4996 0
ds 12292 1 airo_cs
airo 55320 1 airo_cs
pcmcia_core 47176 2 airo_cs,ds
aes 31296 1
floppy 47440 0
sg 27680 0
scsi_mod 91984 1 sg
microcode 4768 0
dm_mod 32800 0
joydev 6976 0
uhci_hcd 24472 0
button 4632 0
battery 6924 0
asus_acpi 8984 0
ac 3340 0
ipv6 184672 6
ext3 103656 2
jbd 40728 1 ext3
[root@itdisgnb007 root]#

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Thanks,