Questions Tagged With wifi

wireless lost in Mint 14

james — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:49:49 -0500

My Dell Inspiron 1011 (32 bit)has been faultless for many years, but the wireless broadband has disappeared in Linux, but it's there in WinXP. I tried running Mint 14 live, but still no wireless. I click the network icon, but no broadband networks appear; in Windows there are loads. I see no way to enable/disable wireless. Ethernet works. I've tried many distros and Manjaro and Lubuntu LXLE12.04.3 (LXF177) connect with wireless so I'm happily using Lubuntu. I'm non-expert, and I'm curious as to how to get my wireless back in my favourite distro, Mint 14 or whatever. The hardware: Board: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card Rev 5.00 Chipset: BCM4315/BCM22062000 MAC address: 0C 60 76 4E EC 58

Download speed of router is same as download on laptop with router connected via ethernet

Samprat — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:13:08 -0500

Setup -> 1) Wireless Product with Access Point in managed mode say Product Name is Alpha. Alpha has an FTP Server installed in it.

2) Router with Access Point in Master Mode. 3) Net-book with windows 7 installed.

Product IPAddress Net-book 192.168.1.10 Router wi-fi adapter 192.168.1.1 Alpha (wireless Product)waln0 192.168.1.7

Router is connected to net-book via Ethernet cable. The LAN port of Router is connected to Net-book . There is no other connection of Internet or any other wired connection.

My Task is to download the files from alpha to Router and measure download speed of router.

Alpha product is successfully connected to Router and I can ping router from Alpha. At this point I tried to ssh into router from netbook with port 22 but it refused to make connection. How will I make ssh connection? 2) I can ping from my net-book to Alpha. I failed to understand how this work even though I have not connected net-book to router nor to alpha. 3) My main issue is to measure the download speed of router . At this point I can telnet into router but I don’t know username so I failed to login but when I tried to do ftp from net-book to Alpha it works . My question is downloading the files on net-book is same as downloading on router . I am more interested in download speed of router does not care about file downloaded or its contents. Could someone please throw light on it? Thanks ....

how to make managed and master AP to talk to each other

Samprat — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:18:17 -0500

Hi Guys,

I have a peculiar problem and i tried my best to figure out problem but i am unable to do so.

Problem -> I Have two devices with access -point n both of them say router A and device B that test connectivity and functionality of Device A.

I have turned access-point of B into managed mode so that it accepts connection from Router A. everything works fine and it connects to router A and i get correct ssid of router A.

Now my text task is to measure speed or transfer some files. When i ping from B to A or vice versa it failed . I am unable to find the problem. IN B wlan0 is connected and has ip address of 192.168.200 and subnet mask of 255.255.255.248 and external ip address of say something like 10.50.120.10

A has wlan3 is connected has ip address in range 192.168.2.1 and subnet mask of 255.255.255.255

Could you guys please let me know who would i make them talk to each other Thanks and regards, Sam

Wifi: got drivers but no signal

slothcheetah — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:51:40 -0400

I'm running Debian Lenny on a Toshiba A200 notebook:

$ lspci | grep Wireless
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

So I installed linux-image 2.6.32 from the Debian backports repository:

$ uname -r
2.6.32-bpo-4-686

This gives me, and loads the driver necessary for my wireless chipset.

$ lsmod | grep ath
ath5k                 103958  0 
mac80211              122310  1 ath5k
ath                     5982  1 ath5k
cfg80211               86941  3 ath5k,mac80211,ath
led_class               1757  2 ath5k,sdhci

# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.
eth0      no wireless extensions.
wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=0 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off

and: # ifconfig wlan0 up reports success. (# echo $? returns 0)

But:

cat /proc/net/wireless
Inter-| sta-|   Quality        |   Discarded packets               | Missed | WE
 face | tus | link level noise |  nwid  crypt   frag  retry   misc | beacon | 22
 wlan0: 0000    0     0     0        0      0      0      0      0        0

So not surprisingly wicd finds no wireless networks. What have I missed? (wireless switch under notebook is on!)

Intel 4965 WiFi refuses to connect to open, unauth AP

Bolster — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:10:56 -0400

I have an intel card that refuses to connect to a completely open AP; Win7 has no problem on the same machine, and the machine has no problem connecting to other, secured, AP's. The Access point itself is a Netgear, and the specific wifi care is a intel 4965.

Syslog pickes up a lot of disconnect reason=6 events (see attached) which implies that the AP gave up waiting for authentication, but there is no authentication!

I've been looking for answers on this for a while

DEBIAN 5.04 - Ralink RT73 can see wireless but cannot connect to WEP

SteveG — Mon, 31 May 2010 11:20:48 -0400

I am puzzled as to why my computer MSI notebook which uses the Ralink RT73 drivers cannot connect to my WEP network even though it can see my network and other networks?

All other distros like Ubuntu (and variants), FEDORA 13, Linuxmint 9, PCLinuxOS can easily connect to my WEP network.

Is this because of Debian's outdated kernel?

Hoping for a quick and newbie-friendly fix.

WiFi in Ubuntu 10.04

kICKSTARTBUBBA — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:55:54 -0400

Have windows Vista and Ubuntu 10.04 on SAME hard drive in a Gateway T-1620 laptop, Vista uses Wifi but in Ubuntu it Fails and states message "Wireless is Disabled" Mt question is "How do I enable IT {wifi}. 60 year old Linux Newbie w/Experience looking for Answer

Connecting internet applications

Bruce Morrison — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:41:19 -0400

I am running XP and ubuntu 9.04 on a Dell Inspiron laptop. I have wi-fi access and ubuntu can see and connect with it. However none of the intenet applications (like Firefox) can see the net. What do I have to do to make these applications see and use the connection. The XP side works fine.