WiFi card works but no connection

[Eric Lemoine]

On 10/17/06, C Hamel <yogich at sc2000.net> wrote:
> Someone said this was the place to come for good answers.
>
> I have used the bcm43xx driver and the ndiswrapper and neither one will cause
> any throughput to happen.  Only the card seems to come alive --that,
> according to the Wifi Manager.
>
> I am uncertian what to do about this, since my last distros (SuSE & Gentoo)
> both gave me throughput the instant I activated the card.  This time, I
> get 'invalid access point'.  Not blaming the distro... just saying.  I don't
> understand what is going on.
>
>
> $ ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:4B:46:E6:92
>           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:255
>
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0D:9D:89:9C:47
>           inet addr:192.168.0.10  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           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:10 Base address:0x2000
>
> 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:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:172 (172.0 b)  TX bytes:172 (172.0 b)
>
> $ iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.437 GHz  Access Point: Invalid
>           Bit Rate=11 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm
>           RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>           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
>
> eth1      no wireless extensions.
>
> sit0      no wireless extensions.

Could you attach your /etc/network/interfaces file?

-- 
Eric