Need help configuring my network
Mark Phillips
mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
Tue May 2 17:46:01 MST 2006
I also noticed the following error is reoccurring every few seconds when I run
dmesg:
ath0: no IPv6 routers present
I have googled around for this error and to may have something to do with
wpasupplicant. But I cannot seem to find a fix for it.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Mark
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 05:01 pm, Jared Anderson wrote:
> Link Quality=0/94
>
> Generally, not good enough. :)
>
> What is the output of the following command?
>
> iwlist ath0 scan
>
> On Tuesday 02 May 2006 14:01, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > I am pulling my hair out trying to set up a ??simple?? wireless network.
> > Everything seems to be working, but I cannot ping any other computer on
the
> > network.
> >
> > The setup
> > * Dell Optiplex 260 (P4 2.49 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 140+40 MB drives) hostname
> > stingray
> >
> > * Windows XP is installed on the 40 GB drive and I just did a net install
> > of Debian (2.6.8-2-386) on the 140 GB drive. Grub handles the dual boot.
> >
> > * Network card = D-Link DWL-G520 , HW rev B3, Firmware 4.20
> >
> > * I am using madwifi 1.7-3 drivers compiled from source
> >
> > * ifplugd 0.26 to detect which network card is active - wireless or
> > integrated ethernet port
> >
> > * wpasupplicant 0.3.8-1 for security later
> >
> > Some sample command uutput:
> >
> > stingray:/home/mark# iwconfig
> > lo no wireless extensions.
> >
> > ath0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"PMI"
> > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.427 GHz Access Point:
> > 00:12:17:0A:57:85 Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
> > Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> > Encryption key:off
> > Power Management:off
> > Link Quality=0/94 Signal level=-95 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
> > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
> >
> > eth0 no wireless extensions.
> >
> > sit0 no wireless extensions.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> > stingray:/home/mark# ifconfig
> > ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:46:E3:68:2B
> > inet addr:192.168.25.125 Bcast:192.168.25.255
> > Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::213:46ff:fee3:682b/64 Scope:Link
> > UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> > RX packets:1172 errors:7435 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:7435
> > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > collisions:0 txqueuelen:200
> > RX bytes:73606 (71.8 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> > Interrupt:169 Memory:e08b1000-e08c1000
> >
> > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:74:CC:3C:17
> > inet6 addr: fe80::208:74ff:fecc:3c17/64 Scope:Link
> > 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)
> > Base address:0xdcc0 Memory:ff6c0000-ff6e0000
> >
> > 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:1653 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > TX packets:1653 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> > RX bytes:144614 (141.2 KiB) TX bytes:144614 (141.2 KiB)
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > stingray:/home/mark# route -n
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> > Iface 192.168.25.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
> > 0 ath0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0
> > 0 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.25.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
> > 0 ath0 stingray:/home/mark#
> >
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >---------
> >
> > /etc/network/interfaces
> >
> > # 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
> > allow-hotplug eth0
> > iface eth0 inet static
> > address 192.168.25.125
> > netmask 255.255.255.0
> > broadcast 192.168.25.255
> > gateway 192.168.25.1
> >
> > # The wireless network interface
> > allow-hotplug ath0
> > iface ath0 inet static
> > wpa-driver madwifi
> > wpa-ssid PMI
> > address 192.168.25.125
> > netmask 255.255.255.0
> > broadcast 192.168.25.255
> > gateway 192.168.25.1
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > If I boot into XP, the wireless card connects and works, so I believe the
> > hardware is OK.
> >
> > What am I missing or doing wrong? When I try to ping another computer on
my
> > network I get "host unreachable".
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