WiFi card works but no connection

[C Hamel]

On Tuesday 17 October 2006 09:51, Eric Lemoine wrote:
> 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
Sorry... knew I had forgotten something... just didn't know what.  Here you 
go.  Thanks.
-- 
	...CH
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# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
	address 192.168.0.10
	netmask 255.255.255.0
	network 192.168.0.0
	broadcast 192.168.0.255
	# dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
	dns-nameservers 205.247.104.20 205.247.104.21
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