[Hoary] Wireless Problem

[William F Pearson III]

I'm know pro on wireless connections but this is what I type to connect at home.

iwconfig eth0 essid mynetwork key s:paswd

Where eth0 is my wireless card, essid is the name i configured in my
router and paswd is the ascii password I have for my WEP.

It looks to me as though your wireless card is located at eth1, but
it's not finding a network (essid)

On 4/20/05, Ed Fletcher <ed at fletcher.ca> wrote:
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> I had wifi working great on my laptop with Warty and NetworkManager.
> But there were a couple of other things that didn't work so well.  So I
> did 'sudo apt-get dist upgrade' on it and then 'sudo apt-get install
> kubuntu-desktop' and somewhere in there I pooched it totally.  Not a big
> problem as I'd backed up what I wanted to keep from my home directory.
> So I wiped the hard drive and installed Hoary from scratch.
> 
> However, now I get no response at all from my wireless card.  It's an
> SMC2835W.  I've read the wireless troubleshooter wiki at
> https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/WiFiTroubleshooting and I get an error
> on step three.  iwconfig gives me:
> 
> $ iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
> 
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> sit0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> eth1      NOT READY!  ESSID:off/any
> ~          Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> ~          Tx-Power=31 dBm   Sensitivity=0/200
> ~          Retry min limit:0   RTS thr=0 B   Fragment thr=0 B
> ~          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:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
> This is probably a very informative error message but not to me.  Anyone
> know what this is trying to tell me?  I don't even get a light on my
> card, so I'm starting to wonder if the card is dead.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> Ed
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William F Pearson III