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Going wireless on linux... with WPA and Static IP? Is it possible?

post #1 of 56
9/18/07 at 1:19am
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Hey everyone. I'm trying to overcome an obstacle here.

I just installed ubuntu to my notebook (this is the first time I'm using linux on a real system so please don't abuse me)

My wireless network is secured through WPA and I have to manually assign IP addresses to each PC as I am using a Static configuration rather than DHCP.

When I open up NetworkManager, I have the ability to set up the network access manually (which is what I need to do). The only problem is, I only have the option there to use WEP. WPA doesn't seem to be supported.

I do see a way to use WPA when I click "Connect to other wireless network". But over there I have no way to set the static IP info. It assumes that it is DHCP and doesn't give me a way to get around that.

So does anyone here know what needs to be done? I know this has to be possible someway somehow.

Long story short: I need WPA + Static IP + Wireless

Help me PLEASE
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post #2 of 56
9/18/07 at 2:53am
Well the very first thing you need to do is make sure your wireless works at all. So turn on ssid broadcast and turn off encryption. If you can connect that way, then please continue below. First, make sure you have wpa_supplicant. fire up synaptic and click 'search' type in "wpa supplicant" click the box next to it when it comes up. If it gives you the option to "mark for reinstallation" you can quit synaptic, if not click "install" and let it do it's thing. Now we're ready to get it working, open a terminal and type:
Code:
wpa_passphrase yourssid yourpassphrase
make sure to use your network ssid, and wpa passphrase (check spelling). This should give you output that looks like this:
Code:
network={
        ssid="yourssid"
        #psk="yourpassphrase"
        psk=46175209ae46a6dc34d7d4ea919d5c521f84a43d20f5adb1048131bc3777bde1
}
copy the long string of numbers and letters after "psk=" to the clip board to use in the next step. now, we'll edit one of your files to get the static ip, and set up WPA. Type:
Code:
sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
once that's open look for the section that looks like this (make sure the "eth1" is your wireless adapter - might be eth0 or even something else):
Code:
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
and change the "dhcp" to "static" and then add the following below it:
Code:
address 192.168.1.101 # the ip you want this machine to use on your network
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1 # the ip of your router
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
wireless-essid youressid
wireless-key 46175209ae46a6dc34d7d4ea919d5c521f84a43d20f5adb1048131bc3777bde1 #the long string you copied earlier
now do <ctrl-o> (that's o, not zero) to save the changes, then <ctrl-x> to exit. Next type:
Code:
sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
and add the following:
Code:
network={    
       ssid="yourssid" # with quotes
       scan_ssid=1
       proto=WPA RSN
       key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
       auth_alg=OPEN
       pairwise=CCMP TKIP
       group=CCMP TKIP
       psk=46175209ae46a6dc34d7d4ea919d5c521f84a43d20f5adb1048131bc3777bde1
}
make sure your encryption settings in the router match what you just put in the wpa_supplicant.conf file, if they don't you'll want to change them so they do. Also, I have had NO luck getting this working with ssid broadcast turned off, your mileage may vary, but I'd turn it on at least until you have it working. Then you can try turning it off if you want. now we want to bring down the wireless adapter:
Code:
sudo ifdown eth1
and then back up with the new settings:
Code:
sudo ifup eth1
this is what worked for me. Hopefully it'll work just as well for you. NOTE: In the code boxes anything following a "#" is a 'comment' to clarify a point, and does not need to be typed into the actual file.
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post #3 of 56
9/18/07 at 4:14am
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hey drlouis! Thanks so much for making such a great and detailed reply!

I was able to follow all your instructions without any problems. I really appreciate your help!!

The only thing that didn't go as planned were the last two steps and here is what I got:

When I did: sudo ifdown eth1
I got: ifdown: interface eth1 not configured

and then

When I did: sudo ifup eth1
I got:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
Could not set interface "eth1' UP
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

Now I just have to mention that I had to skip the part where you said:

"Well the very first thing you need to do is make sure your wireless works at all. So turn on ssid broadcast and turn off encryption."

That's because at this moment, my sister is using the connection for something and she refuses to let me take it down (even if it's only for one second). I told her it was a matter of life and death and she told me she doesn't care...

Isn't she just sweetest little thing?
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post #4 of 56
9/18/07 at 10:30am
it sounds like your wireless adapter is not eth1. We need to find out what it is. I'm on may out the door to work, and won't be back til late tonight, but I'll check when I get back. In the mean time, would you post the output you get from:
Code:
sudo ifconfig
and
Code:
sudo iwconfig
very possibly someone will be able to help you get it working before I even get back, but if not then I'll do my best. oh, and if you can try turning off encryption and turning on ssid broadcast, to see if you can connect at all, that would eliminate the most likely cause of trouble.
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post #5 of 56
9/18/07 at 2:16pm
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Hi drlouis.

I've entered the commands you've asked me to and the output appears to show that eth1 is the wireless adapter. Although I'm no expert so here is exactly what it says:

sudo ifconfig:
Code:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:B9:83:70:98  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 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:21 

eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:B9:83:70:98  
          inet addr:169.254.7.205  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          Interrupt:21 

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:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:804 (804.0 b)  TX bytes:804 (804.0 b)


sudo iwconfig:
Code:
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:"V"  Nickname:"Broadcom 4311"
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Invalid   
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:7465-7374-696E-6700-0000-0000-00   Security mode:open
          Link Quality=0/100  Signal level=-256 dBm  Noise level=-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Also, today I attempted to connect wirelessly without any security enabled. I couldn't seem to do it and I have a feeling it is because of the Static IP. It seems linux is always assuming that the user would be using DHCP. I tried using that Network-Manager icon in the system tray which allows me to set up a static IP but it only has WEP as an option (no option for "no security").

So I set up WEP security through my router and tried it with Network-Manager but it doesn't seem to do anything. It's very strange and I don't know what the problem could be. Although I have a feeling like I'm doing something wrong...
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post #6 of 56
9/18/07 at 3:48pm
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Quick question:

This notebook is brand new and came with Windows Vista as the OS. I only used Vista for about 5 minutes before deciding to wipe the hard drive and install linux. But during those 5 minutes I remember a tiny green light above the keyboard area that lit up and said WiFi (This is a Dell Inspirion 1501 by the way.)

I noticed in linux this light is shut off. Could this be the problem? I've been reading so much info these past few hours and trying many different suggestion I found scattered all over the web. But now I just realized that this WiFi green light has never been on since I installed linux. So if anyone can confirm, is it supposed to be on or off?

I see the Fn+F2 button is supposed to control that. But nothing happens when I press it.
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post #7 of 56
9/18/07 at 4:23pm
Same problem I had. Press F2 as your computer is booting and go into the BIOS 99% sure that it will be disabled. Just enable it and your should be able to go from there.
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post #8 of 56
9/18/07 at 4:23pm
Post output of...
lspci -v

If the card is disabled, lspci will certainly indicate it.

In as far as the error indicated from earlier, it appears you may need to have your firmware available for the driver to access. If DR. Louis can't help you with doing this, I will see what I can do to help you, though if you have a broadcom card, that driver is still fairly recent and there may not be much I can find online about it. At that point it may be better to switch to ndiswrapper if that is possible with WPA? Someone more familiar with wireless on Linux pop in on that one?

Seablade
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post #9 of 56
9/18/07 at 4:28pm
Well from what I have found in my use of Linux (Kubuntu at least) is that if you use WPA you can't use WEP. And I have never gotten a wireless connect without SSID being broad casted.
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post #10 of 56
9/18/07 at 4:31pm
the fact that the hardware card is down so to speak could be a problem, need a way to bring it up. the good news is that even though its a broadcom linux still recognizes is.

given dhcp and a wep encription what you do should look something like:

#: sudo su
#: ifconfig eth1 essid YOURESSID key YOURWEPKEY
#: ifconfig eth1 up
#: dhclient eth1

that should bring you online. but if the hardware ain't working then thats another problem.

ok...i did a quick google and it seems the native broadcom drivers ubuntu supplies are broken and useless and thus result in total crap. solution: find the Win2k/XP drivers for it and load them up via Ndiswrapper (System > Administration > Wireless Drivers...or something to that effect).
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post #11 of 56
9/18/07 at 5:00pm
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Wow, thanks a lot to everyone who is trying to help me. I really appreciate this guys!

Quote:
Originally Posted by DarqHelmet View Post
Same problem I had. Press F2 as your computer is booting and go into the BIOS 99% sure that it will be disabled. Just enable it and your should be able to go from there.
I just did that there doesn't seem to be anything disabled there.


Quote:
Originally Posted by seablade View Post
Post output of...
lspci -v
This gave me a bunch of information although I have no idea what it means. Here it goes:

Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01f5
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
        I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
        Memory behind bridge: d0100000-d01fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d4000000-00000000d7ffffff
        Capabilities: [44] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping
        Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge

00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a37 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [58] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
        Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5950
        Capabilities: [b8] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping

00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
        Memory behind bridge: d0200000-d02fffff
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [58] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
        Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5950
        Capabilities: [b8] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping

00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01f5
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
        I/O ports at 8438 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 8454 [size=4]
        I/O ports at 8430 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 8450 [size=4]
        I/O ports at 8400 [size=16]
        Memory at d0004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01f5
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
        Memory at d0005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01f5
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
        Memory at d0006000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01f5
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
        Memory at d0007000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01f5
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
        Memory at d0008000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01f5
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
        Memory at d0009000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01f5
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
        Memory at d0004400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [e4] Debug port

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 SMBus (rev 14)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01f5
        Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
        I/O ports at 8410 [size=16]
        Memory at d0004800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Capabilities: [b0] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01f5
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
        I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
        I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
        I/O ports at 8420 [size=16]

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Azalia
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01f5
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01f5
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to PCI Bridge (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=64
        Memory behind bridge: d0300000-d03fffff

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
        Flags: fast devsel
        Capabilities: [80] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
        Flags: fast devsel

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
        Flags: fast devsel

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
        Flags: fast devsel

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01f5
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 10
        Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
        Memory at d0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at d0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0007
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
        Memory at d0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0

08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01f5
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
        Memory at d0300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

08:01.0 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01f5
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
        Memory at d0302800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

08:01.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01f5
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
        Memory at d0302c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

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Originally Posted by DarqHelmet View Post
I have never gotten a wireless connect without SSID being broad casted.
Yep I'm always sure to have my SSID broadcasted. But it's not being picked up in linux. And not just my network, I don't see any networks being picked up. In Windows there are a couple of them (neighbors I guess). But I don't see any of them in linux.

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Originally Posted by abf View Post
ok...i did a quick google and it seems the native broadcom drivers ubuntu supplies are broken and useless and thus result in total crap. solution: find the Win2k/XP drivers for it and load them up via Ndiswrapper (System > Administration > Wireless Drivers...or something to that effect).
Thanks abf, I will try that right away and see what happens. I'll post back and let you know.
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post #12 of 56
9/18/07 at 5:10pm
do this http://ubuntu1501.blogspot.com/2007/...dell-1501.html
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post #13 of 56
9/18/07 at 6:26pm
This is the relevant part of that output you posted...
Code:
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0007
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
        Memory at d0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
Pretty much if the wireless card was not enabled next to the memory addresses you would like see a [disabled] tag. I would take ABF's suggestion and set up ndiswrapper, the Broadcom drivers require some more advanced stuff still including quite often ripping the firmware from the card itself. They are being reverse engineered so the going is very slow as broadcom is not very helpful, to put it mildly. Seablade
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post #14 of 56
9/18/07 at 6:28pm
Intel Wireless FTW!!.


And to the OP this just went beyond my knowledge but you are in great hands with Doc, Seablade, and ABF. (in no order guys)
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post #15 of 56
9/18/07 at 7:22pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by abf View Post
It's like you're reading my mind.

As soon as I made my previous post I did a few searches and wound up at that exact url, followed all the instructions, and came back her to let you guys know and sure enough you recommended the same URL for me to follow

So anyways, I did everything listed on those instructions.

Well, the only thing I had to do differently was:

Code:
STEP 2: GET NEEDED PACKAGES - We'll need to install compiling tools, the latest kernel headers, and then the source code for the latest ndiswrapper, and the wireless drivers from Dell.com

Get your compiling tools & kernel headers
In a terminal type:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

I realized one would need a working internet connection in order to perform those commands. So I did some research and found out I can install it from the Ubuntu installation CD. No problems yet.

I downloaded the latest driver and the ndiswrapper on my windows xp machine and transfered them to the linux notebook with my handy dandy USB drive.

I've gotten all the way to the end of the guide and rebooted. Like magic, the WiFi light lit up (and so did my eyes)

So now I have the light all lit up and all, but there doesn't seem to be any wireless card installed anymore... ?

System->Administration->Network shows no Wireless connection anymore.

Now I don't know what all these outputs mean but I will post them here just incase they matter:

sudo ifconfig
Code:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:B9:83:70:98  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 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:21 

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:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:200 (200.0 b)  TX bytes:200 (200.0 b)

sudo iwconfig
Code:
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

sudo iwlist scanning
Code:
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.


Also, just so we are all on the same page here, I uninstalled Network-Manager (that comes with ubuntu). I replaced it with WICD because it looks cooler and has WPA/Static IP options via the GUI. Any objections to this move? let me know. I just found it during my endless searches and figured I'd give it a go.

I was about to give up but now I feel like I'm so close I can taste it! I can see the light!! (no really, I can see the light and it's bright green and it says WiFi)
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post #16 of 56
9/18/07 at 7:31pm
Awesome
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post #17 of 56
9/18/07 at 7:35pm
Repeat the ifup command given to you earlier and see what the message is?

Seablade
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post #18 of 56
9/18/07 at 8:11pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by seablade View Post
Repeat the ifup command given to you earlier and see what the message is?

Seablade

sudo ifup eth1
Code:
eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; No such device.
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Failed to bring up eth1.

By the way, the light is gone! I put the machine in standby to let the battery recharge as it was running low. When I fired it back up the WiFi light was off and there seems to be no way to turn it back on again... ahhhh.
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post #19 of 56
9/18/07 at 9:05pm
Post the output of...
lsmod
?
Seablade
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post #20 of 56
9/18/07 at 10:00pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by seablade View Post
Post the output of...
lsmod
?
Seablade

sudo lsmod
Code:
Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  268704  8 
binfmt_misc            12680  1 
rfcomm                 40856  0 
l2cap                  25728  5 rfcomm
bluetooth              55908  4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev                  10116  0 
powernow_k8            16064  0 
cpufreq_conservative     8200  0 
cpufreq_ondemand        9228  1 
cpufreq_powersave       2688  0 
cpufreq_stats           7360  0 
freq_table              5792  3 powernow_k8,cpufreq_ondemand,cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_userspace       5408  0 
sony_acpi               6284  0 
tc1100_wmi              8068  0 
pcc_acpi               13184  0 
dev_acpi               12292  0 
button                  8720  0 
container               5248  0 
dock                   10268  0 
asus_acpi              17308  0 
backlight               7040  1 asus_acpi
battery                10756  0 
video                  16388  0 
ac                      6020  0 
sbs                    15652  0 
i2c_ec                  5888  1 sbs
i2c_core               22784  1 i2c_ec
parport_pc             36388  0 
lp                     12452  0 
parport                36936  3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
fuse                   46612  0 
joydev                 10816  0 
snd_hda_intel          21912  1 
snd_hda_codec         205440  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss            44544  0 
snd_mixer_oss          17408  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                79876  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy           4740  0 
snd_seq_oss            32896  0 
snd_seq_midi            9600  0 
snd_rawmidi            25472  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      8448  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
ide_cd                 32672  0 
cdrom                  37664  1 ide_cd
snd_seq                52592  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              23684  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          9100  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
psmouse                38920  0 
serio_raw               7940  0 
pcspkr                  4224  0 
sdhci                  18700  0 
mmc_core               26756  1 sdhci
snd                    54020  12 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               8672  1 snd
k8temp                  6656  0 
generic                 5124  0 [permanent]
snd_page_alloc         10888  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
ati_agp                10124  0 
agpgart                35400  1 ati_agp
shpchp                 34324  0 
pci_hotplug            32576  1 shpchp
tsdev                   8768  0 
evdev                  11008  5 
ext3                  133128  2 
jbd                    59816  1 ext3
mbcache                 9604  1 ext3
atiixp                  7440  0 [permanent]
sg                     36252  0 
sd_mod                 23428  4 
ata_generic             9092  0 
b44                    28044  0 
mii                     6528  1 b44
ehci_hcd               34188  0 
ahci                   22020  3 
libata                125720  2 ata_generic,ahci
scsi_mod              142348  3 sg,sd_mod,libata
ohci_hcd               22532  0 
usbcore               134280  3 ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
thermal                14856  0 
processor              31048  2 powernow_k8,thermal
fan                     5636  0 
fbcon                  42656  0 
tileblit                3584  1 fbcon
font                    9216  1 fbcon
bitblit                 6912  1 fbcon
softcursor              3200  1 bitblit
vesafb                  9220  0 
capability              5896  0 
commoncap               8192  1 capability
^Whatever THAT means

I think I'm going to wipe the drive and start from scratch and follow this guide all over again. Maybe I screwed something up during all the different things I've tried in the past 24 hours. Lets see how that goes
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