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

Thu Sep 17 00:40:00 UTC 2009

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 23:05:30 Fred Roller wrote:
> 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."

Hi Fred

Done that

My chip is the Intel 4965AGN and no errors are seen in the output of dmesg 
relating to it. Below I paste the section of dmesg related to this. Ok 
there's some extra in the middle of it as I didn't want to miss anything

James

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[   62.041301] iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver for Linux, 
1.2.0
[   62.041305] iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation
[   62.041390] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> 
IRQ 17
[   62.041400] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
[   62.041413] iwl4965: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
[   62.196793] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.1, id: 0xa3a0b3, caps: 
0xa04713/0x10008
[   62.236465] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad 
as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input7
[   62.600581] iwl4965: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels
[   62.601574] wmaster0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-4965-rs'
[   62.619927] atl1 0000:02:00.0: eth0 link is up 100 Mbps full duplex
[   62.900101] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> 
IRQ 23
[   62.900122] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
[   63.141621] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[   63.165842] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[   63.402317] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[   63.490818] Adding 2382140k swap on /dev/sda5.  Priority:-1 extents:1 
across:2382140k
[   64.025328] EXT3 FS on sda3, internal journal
[   64.201929] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
[   64.201957] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.12.0-ioctl (2007-10-02) initialised: 
dm-devel at redhat.com
[   65.656235] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[   67.708186] No dock devices found.
[   69.271036] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[   69.755196] audit(1253145495.502:2): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" 
requested_mask="a::" denied_mask="a::" name="/dev/tty" pid=7615 
profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" namespace="default"
[   70.134946] apm: BIOS not found.
[   71.366296] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[   71.366301] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[   71.652329] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir at monad.swb.de).
[   71.707631] audit(1253145497.455:3): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" 
requested_mask="::rw" denied_mask="::rw" name="/dev/tty" pid=7862 
profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" namespace="default"
[   71.758389] NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery 
directory
[   71.772906] NFSD: starting 90-second grace period
[   73.938378] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[   75.989652] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   76.077790] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.9
[   76.077801] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   76.331330] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[   76.331349] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[   76.331353] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
[  131.324318] uvcvideo: Failed to resubmit video URB (-45).
[  131.324343] uvcvideo: Failed to resubmit video URB (-45).
[  131.324359] uvcvideo: Failed to resubmit video URB (-45).
[  131.324374] uvcvideo: Failed to resubmit video URB (-45).
[  311.795099] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain.
[  311.795105] CPU1 attaching NULL sched-domain.
[  311.805269] CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
[  311.805274]  domain 0: span 03
[  311.805275]   groups: 01 02
[  311.805279] CPU1 attaching sched-domain:
[  311.805280]  domain 0: span 03
[  311.805282]   groups: 02 01
[  313.069391] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[  314.893395] wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
[  314.893401] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1b:11:d4:ea:32
[  314.894983] wlan0: RX authentication from 00:1b:11:d4:ea:32 (alg=0 
transaction=2 status=0)
[  314.894989] wlan0: authenticated
[  314.894992] wlan0: associate with AP 00:1b:11:d4:ea:32
[  314.897901] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:1b:11:d4:ea:32 (capab=0x471 
status=0 aid=2)
[  314.897907] wlan0: associated
[  314.899934] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[  333.631703] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
[  532.972235] audit(1253145958.970:4): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" 
requested_mask="::rw" denied_mask="::rw" name="/dev/tty" pid=11711 
profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" namespace="default"