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yanos
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 11 Sep 2003
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Location: montreal, canada
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 Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 3:07 pm Post subject: link quality of my AP always 0/100 |
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After giving hope on the acx100 driver, I decided to try ndiswrapper. It used to work very well, until trying to get WEP working. I couldn't get an ip address with dhcpcd, so I tried reverting my changes so I could at least have my card to work without WEP. But then, it doesn't work anymore, WEP or not. What's weird is that iwlist wlan0 scan detect my access point but it says that the link quality is 0/100:
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musaraigne ~ # iwlist wlan0 scan
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:09:5B:D6:0E:38
ESSID:"devnull"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-24 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
Bit Rate:6 Mb/s
Bit Rate:9 Mb/s
Bit Rate:12 Mb/s
Bit Rate:18 Mb/s
Bit Rate:24 Mb/s
Bit Rate:36 Mb/s
Bit Rate:48 Mb/s
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
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It used to be 100% and now it's 0% despite the fact that my router is sitting right next to my computer. That has the effect of me nerver able to associate with my access point. Notice also the warning about the version of my wireless extension, a message that appear after emerging ndiswrapper 1.2. There is also a message in dmesg about ndiswrapper not able to set the encryption key of my card despite encryption being turned off:
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musaraigne ~ # dmesg
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wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0f:b5:06:16:81 using driver wg311v2, configuration file 104C:9066:1385:4C00.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP
ndiswrapper (add_wep_key:711): adding encryption key 1 failed (C0010015)
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musaraigne ~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
tunl0 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:5.26 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:10 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2312 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100 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
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kill
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Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Ndiswrapper does not support showing link quality. |
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yanos
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 11 Sep 2003
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Location: montreal, canada
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| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Ok, that would explain it. Anyway, I figure out what I was doing wrong and managed to get my wg311v2 working with WEP, finally. |
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jamapii
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Joined: 16 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| yanos wrote: | | Anyway, I figure out what I was doing wrong and managed to get my wg311v2 working with WEP, finally. |
What was it? (There's a slight possibility that it helps me  )
ndiswrapper doesn't associate with my access point either, WEP or not. But it worked recently with an open access point. |
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yanos
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 11 Sep 2003
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Location: montreal, canada
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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| The problems was that, somehow, my card was still trying to use encryption despite having turned it off with iwconfig. Notice the error in dmesg about a key that couldn't be loaded tight after modprobing ndiswrapper. So I don't really know if I could revert back to an non encrypted comunication, but I couldn't care less now that it works perfectly with WEP enabled. I hope this will give you some clues. |
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