Minime wireless not working

[silverbirch]

I have a compaq presario f500 laptop running Pclos Minime 2011.  Prior to minimme I ran Pclos kde up to date and had no problems with wireless.

I tried this command and got this output - hoping someone can help.

service -f network

Bringing up interface eth0:                                     [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth1:  Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.

Many thanks
                   

[T6]

i haven't used minime in a long time but it seems that you could need the wifi adapter driver or at least configure the adapter first

you didn't told us your hardware specs or if you have experience with minime

minime is not meant to be used for unexperienced users(this is why i don't use it, couldn't do much with it)

[silverbirch]

It recognises the Broadcom card but when I run PCC it just doesn't work.  I might try find my Pclos disk and reinstall.  May have to download again, as couldn't find the disk the other day when I wanted it.  That'll teach me to dabble in other distros!!

[djohnston]

silverbirch,

I get that "Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A)" message all the time on one of my wireless cards. It simply means that the WEP key is wrong. I probably get it because I'm not using WEP. I'm using WPA. But, it does not prevent me from getting a connection. Otherwise, I would not be able to ping my router at 192.168.1.1.

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[root@PentiumIII ~]# service -f network
Shutting down interface wlan0:                                  [  OK  ]
Shutting down loopback interface:                               [  OK  ]
Bringing up loopback interface:                                 [  OK  ]
Configuring wireless regulatory domain                          [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface wlan0:  Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
                                                                [  OK  ]
[root@PentiumIII ~]# ping 192.168.1.1 -c 5
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=26.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=9.48 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=3 ttl=64 time=9.35 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=4 ttl=64 time=18.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=5 ttl=64 time=9.45 ms

--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 9.356/14.484/26.052/6.685 ms
[root@PentiumIII ~]#
What bothers me about your post is that you say you have a wireless connection. But, you're showing two ethernet connections, eth0 and eth1. Open PCC. Go to Network & Internet in the left pane and Network Center in the right pane. How many network connections are showing there?

[silverbirch]

Yes eth0 is the wired connection using the nVidia driver, and eth1 is the wireless using the Broadcom wifiLAN card.  The wireless shows as seeing the modem and configured but using WEP - I change it to WPA to try connect, but it gives an error.

Thanks

[djohnston]

That's not much info to go on. A wireless connection has to go through a router. Is the router set to accept a WEP password or WPA? It has to be one or the other. Can you ping the router? Do you know the router's address? What does iwconfig show?

[silverbirch]

The router uses WPA/WPA2.


bash-4.1$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11  Nickname:"localhost.localdomai"
          Access Point: Not-Associated
          Link Quality:5  Signal level:0  Noise level:199
          Rx invalid nwid:0  invalid crypt:0  invalid misc:0

eth0      no wireless extensions.

bash-4.1$

The gateway is 192.168.0.1  (assume that's the router?), DNS is 192.168.0.1, IP for this using wired is 192.168.0.100

[AS]

I have a compaq presario f500 laptop running Pclos Minime 2011.  Prior to minimme I ran Pclos kde up to date and had no problems with wireless.

I tried this command and got this output - hoping someone can help.

service -f network

Bringing up interface eth0:                                     [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth1:  Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.

Many thanks
                   

Exactly what wireless device ? Broadcom ? Model ?
Is installed the driver dkms-broadcom-wl ?

[GermanTux]

eth1      IEEE 802.11  Nickname:"localhost.localdomai"
          Access Point: Not-Associated
          Link Quality:5  Signal level:0  Noise level:199
          Rx invalid nwid:0  invalid crypt:0  invalid misc:0

The gateway is 192.168.0.1  (assume that's the router?), DNS is 192.168.0.1, IP for this using wired is 192.168.0.100

You are not being associated to the SSID.  I assume you have not changed the passphrase lately, so it could be your router (or wireless AP) is not associating clients properly.  I would try resetting the router.

[djohnston]

eth1      IEEE 802.11  Nickname:"localhost.localdomai"

In addition to what others have said, the default showing for nickname should be "localhost.localdomain"

[silverbirch]

Thanks all.

No I hadn't changed the key any time.  I had rebooted the router with no effect, so I reset it and very briefly the wireless worked.  However after shutting down and rebooting it's gone again, and running PCC didn't get it back.

I've connected via the ethernet and currently downloading 2012 full KDE, so hope that fixes the problem.

I hadn't given a lot of detail in my post as this card on this PC had worked with Pclos KDE before, and I mistakenly assumed it would be ok with minime..  If I have troubles with the fresh KDE I'll be sure to follow the earlier post regarding wireless issues.

Many thanks again all.

[GermanTux]

Thanks all.

No I hadn't changed the key any time.  I had rebooted the router with no effect, so I reset it and very briefly the wireless worked.  However after shutting down and rebooting it's gone again, and running PCC didn't get it back.

I've connected via the ethernet and currently downloading 2012 full KDE, so hope that fixes the problem.

I hadn't given a lot of detail in my post as this card on this PC had worked with Pclos KDE before, and I mistakenly assumed it would be ok with minime..  If I have troubles with the fresh KDE I'll be sure to follow the earlier post regarding wireless issues.

Many thanks again all.

This is almost certainly a router problem.  I would strongly suggest either A)trying to find a firmware upgrade with the vendor, or B)buying a new router.  These types of problems are common as routers have become phenomenally cheap.   

[silverbirch]

What a mission - with all my messing about I completely lost the Internet connection, and had to phone the ISP and reset the modem.  Currently on my desktop connecting directly to modem, and bypassing the router.  I'll check out prices for new routers, as I remember now the wireless connection had been dropping off intermittently for a few weeks.  I don't use the laptop all that often, so had forgotten.  The router was given to me in any case, so no biggie I guess.

Thank you all very much for your time.

[silverbirch]

Just to update you all.  I bought a TP - Link TD-W896ON wireless modem router, which was only NZ$108 or something.  I've just configured it and it seems faster than my previous set up, and wireless came up immediately.

[T6]

yesterday i was buying a wireless n pci card for a desktop and found a inundation of tp link products

can you share your experience with the device?  configuring and using it?