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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