Wifi config cliff (gutsy, zd1211, aaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiihhhhhhhh)
Greg Emil
greg.emil at gmail.com
Sat Oct 20 20:16:24 UTC 2007
Help! I've fallen over the Wifi config cliff and I can't get up.
I upgraded my fiesty box to gutsy and tried to use my new, generic zd1211
USB dongle to connect to my Linksys WRT54G/GL/GS, which is running DD-WRT
v23 SP2. Never got it working under fiesty, and no luck with gutsy so far.
I've been trying all of the Wifi tips in help.ubuntu.com, and could really
use a pointer or two.
Here are the assorted clues. lsmod shows the zd1211rw module loaded into the
kernel. I set up the router for a static IP address for the USB dongle's
MAC.
$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
wireless-mode managed
address 192.168.1.135
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
wireless-key [a real key]
wireless-essid dd-wrt
$ sudo ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:72:65:F1:19
inet addr:192.168.1.135 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:10 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:10
TX packets:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:3674 (3.5 KB)
$ sudo iwconfig eth1
eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"dd-wrt" Nickname:"zd1211"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.472 GHz Access Point: Invalid
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
Encryption key:6173-6464-306F-6464-0000-0000-00 Security
mode:open
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
$ sudo iwconfig eth1 freq 2.437G
Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not permitted.
$ sudo iwpriv eth1
eth1 Available private ioctls :
set_regdomain (8BE0) : set 1 byte & get 0
get_regdomain (8BE1) : set 0 & get 1 byte
THANKS in advance!
Cheers,
Greg
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