Wireless does not see Internet [was: PSK recovery?]

[Fred Roller]

James Takac wrote:
> Hi Fred
>
> On Tuesday 15 September 2009 12:02:21 Fred Roller wrote:
>   
>> James Takac wrote:
>>     
>>> Just tried that and can ping the router from every system with the
>>> exception of the non working one. Thx for the idea tho
>>>
>>> James
>>>       
>> If your router is older than vista then try the following if you can:
>>
>> shut down all the PC's and the router.  Turn the router back on and let
>> it come back up, then *only* turn on the Ubuntu PC.  See if it gets it's
>> address and then gets out to the internet.  Then bring the other systems
>> back up.
>>
>> There are some reports that Vista made some changes to the UDP traffic
>> and older routers or routers not updated with new instructions will
>> cause malfunctions in the network traffic.
>>
>> Outside of this we may have to turn our attention to your router.  DHCP
>> is working because you are getting an address.  The gateway is being set
>> to the router 10.1.1.1 All the other machines be name(mygateway1.ar7)
>>
>> --
>> Fred
>> www.fwrgallery.com
>>
>> "Life is like linux, simple.  If you are fighting it you are doing
>> something wrong."
>>     
>
> Done a lil more digging re my wireless and dunno if the following will help
>
> iwconfig gives the following
>
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"abrasax"  Nickname:""
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:1B:11:D4:EA:32   
>           Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=27 dBm   
>           Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2346 B   
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality=100/100  Signal level=-34 dBm  Noise level=-94 dBm
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
>
> I'm gathering nothing usefull there for now
>
> sudo dhclient if_name  gives the following
>
> There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 134519072
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
> Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
>
> wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> if_name: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> if_name: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
> Bind socket to interface: No such device
> p3nn at p3nn-laptop-64bit:~$ sudo dhclient if_name > dhclient.txt
> There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 134519072
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
> Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
>
> wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> if_name: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> if_name: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
> Bind socket to interface: No such device
>
>
> Now I gather we have some errors on my side that might be a prob?
>
> James
>
>   
Run the following:

    lspci

and look for your wireless card.  Then run:

    dmesg >query
    less query
or
    gedit query

dmesg will list the sequence of event from boot.  Look for error 
messages involving your wireless card.  See if comes up with anything.

-- 
Fred
www.fwrgallery.com

"Life is like linux, simple.  If you are fighting it you are doing something wrong."