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Can't properly configure client mode on Tomato router

Tue, 25 Jul 2017 02:43:20 +0200

Dear Internet,

I just installed Tomato firmware on my Buffalo Airstation G54 router. My goal is to use it in wireless client mode to give wireless Internet access to an old PC that doesn't have a wireless card. To that end I configured it according the directions at [Wifi-planet.com][1]. But it's not working.

The Tomato "status" is perpetually "Renewing..." and I can't access the Internet (see attached screen grab). You guys think you can tell me what I've done wrong?

Much thanks in advance!
-Robert

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BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless netbook

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:52:42 +0100

I decided to try and install fedora 16 xfce on my netbook and I got it installed. However it wasn't able to detect the wireless so I installed the driver. It's showing up when I run lspci but seems like it's not loaded cuz my network manager isn't detecting anything and when I run ifconfig I have no wlan0 showing up.

Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)

Sound is working now. Just need to get this wireless thing figured out.

[root@feedmebits-net ~]# modprobe brcm80211

FATAL: Module brcm80211 not found.

[root@feedmebits-net ~]# iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

p5p1 no wireless extensions.

I can detect wireless but I can not connect

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:06:10 +0200

I have no idea wjhere to start trouble shooting my problem.

My wireless card is able to detect wireless signals but I can not connect to them. I get a pop up window that asks me to enter the security passkey. I am sure I am entering the right one, I double checked the router security settings through a wired connection. However, the icon whirls around for a few seconds and then gives me the same pop up window again asking for the passkey. I can not connect to open networks either.

I am using Fedora 13 and this developed after recent updates from about two weeks ago.

Wireless card not detected / installed

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:41:14 +0200

I just finished installing ubuntu 10.04 with windows in dual boot after lots of reading, but my Wireless card is not detected or working, I cant connect to internet without my wireless card, how do i install one, my wireless card is intel wireless 3945abg. i searched net but no luck...plz help

Fedora 11 on EeePC1000

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:12:16 +0200

My Fedora installation no longer detects automatic wireless networks. A little network icon appears in the notification area and usually a drop-down list indicates all of the available wireless access points. Now, none of that appears. The only thing that appears now is "Wired Network" greyed out in the drop-down menu. If I plug in an ethernet cable, it detects it automatically.

I am a little lost on how where to go from here.

ETA:

Solved with Fn + F2 keys.

asante al1611

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:45:39 +0200

hi guys, im just starting linux (well, not JUST starting) and i want to get my wireless working. i went to linuxwireless.org but didnt see the name of my card on the list. but, when i download the windows driver from the net, use my usb to get it onto my computer and put the .inf and .sys files into /home/wireless (i havent set up a user account yet, so im root) , and i do ndiswrapper -i /home/wireless/8180.inf, it gives me no output, but when i do ndiswrapper -l, it says:

8180 : invalid driver!

The driver im trying to use worked on windows 2000, so i dont know why its invalid. my asante al1611 probably just isnt supported in linux (its a PCMCIA (or whatever its called) device), but, if theres a solution, thnx in advance.

Debian Wireless

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:31:55 +0200

So I have Debian installed on my laptop, and I was able to get the madwifi driver working for my Atheros AR5008x (aka AR5418) So anywhere there it is sitting at ath0, but network manager the little dohicky up top doesn't want to play, there's only 3 options, wired network, configure something, and about, the wired network and the configure are greyed out, because I'm not connected(trying to use the wireless card) and it's not working,

I tried a few other apps to test out where the problem was, one even went as far to use my wireless card to scan for nearby networks, but I wasn't able to connect to them thru that program, anyway anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Error installing ieee82011-1-1.9 (Intel PRO 2200BG)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:34:20 +0200

Hi everyone,

I have CentOS 5.2.18-92.el5 installed on my machine, it works fine but my problem is it doesnt detect my wireless card which is the intel PRO 2200 BG. I followed the dircetions in the sticky in this forum but I'm having problems installing the ieee82011-1-1.9 file. here is the error message when I execute the make command:

Checking in /lib/modules/2.6.26.2 for ieee80211 components...

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.26.2/build M=/usr/local/src/ieee80211-1.2.18 modules

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.26.2'

CC [M] /usr/local/src/ieee80211-1.2.18/ieee80211_module.o

/usr/local/src/ieee80211-1.2.18/ieee80211_module.c: In function

wlan on slax

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:32:42 +0200

hi. having some problem with getting my new pc to connect to internet.

i am using Slax 6.0.7.

okay, it goes like this.

slax finds my wlan card, but doesn't find any networks.

when i give myself a IP in "Set IP address(network-conf)" i can scan for networks and i find the network im looking for.

but when i fill inn the network name, interface (wlan0), hook the 'use encryption' (and put the password in the KEY 1 box, and choose restricted) in KWiFiManager i still don't get no connection. i still get the box who shows all the networks i can connect to, but its not possible to push the 'switch network' button.

how do i fix this?

thank for all help.

JeanDamme

wireless problem Fedora 8 and broadcom BCM4312

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:57:59 +0200

hi guys, i've Fedora 8 installed on this computer and i setup the wireless card on it yesterday by doing as follows

after doing that I added a new wireless connection in system-config-network and gave it an ip address of 192.168.0.3

i then activated it and all was cool, for a while, after an hour or so (don't know yet) all internet conectivity would die, i couldn't even ping my smoothwall (192.168.0.1)

note: on this same machine using a dell truemobil 1150 pcmcia card it worked 100% so maybe a broadcom firmware issue ?

here's what things look like when the internet dies

Quote:[root@localhost ~]# ping www.google.comping: unknown host www.google.com

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig wlan1

wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:CE:52:490

inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::216:ceff:fe52:49d0/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:118777 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:94960 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:128962747 (122.9 MiB) TX bytes:10495169 (10.0 MiB)

[root@localhost ~]# ping 192.168.0.1

PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=7 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=9 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=10 Destination Host Unreachable

--- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---

12 packets transmitted, 0 received, +6 errors, 100% packet loss, time 10998ms

, pipe 2

and the only way to get it up again is to go into system-config-network (neat) and de-activate/re-activate it

see below

Quote:[root@localhost ~]# service network restartShutting down interface wlan1: [ OK ]

Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]

Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig wlan1 up

[root@localhost ~]# ping 192.168.0.1

connect: Network is unreachable

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig

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:22378 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:22378 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:1430515 (1.3 MiB) TX bytes:1430515 (1.3 MiB)

wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:CE:52:490

UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:118781 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:94981 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:128964027 (122.9 MiB) TX bytes:10496429 (10.0 MiB)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-16-CE-52-49-D0-B8-D9-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00

UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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)

[root@localhost ~]# neat

any ideas why this is happening or how I can fix it ?

Fedora 8 and BCM4312

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:49:34 +0200

to get the above card working in Fedora 8 I did the following (as root)

get the latest firmware

Code:
wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2

uncompress it

Code:
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2

change directory to where the uncompressed files now are

Code:
cd broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5

cd driver/

add the firmware

Code:
b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta_mimo.o

associate with an Access Point called wireless_g with a 64 bit wep key qqq99.

Code:
iwconfig wlan1 mode "managed" essid "wireless_g" key "7171713939"

Linksys WMP300N PCI [Fedora 8]

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:26:13 +0100

Hello.

I read through this thread ( https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3277 ) trying to get my 300n card working in Fedora 8 using NDISWRAPPER but fell short and can't tell why.

Here are the steps I did in order and with as much detail as possible, but in the end I had no results.

Ideas?

So I installed NDISWRAPPER v.1.5.2

I downloaded the .inf files from linksys for the 300n and unpacked then in my home directory.

One thing that seperated my system from the pointed thread above where I got my howto from, my lsusb gave no real hint it saw the Linksys device.

Code:
[root@localhost /]# lspci

00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a1)

01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)

01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)

01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2)

02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3)

02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3)

04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1)

05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)

06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2)

07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)

08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)

09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)

0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)

0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6100 nForce 430 (rev a2)

18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration

18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map

18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller

18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control

09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43XG (rev 01)

[root@localhost /]#

Best guess is that according to sites found via Googling that the US version of the card uses Broadcom chipsets, not Atheros, so possible the last device listed is the 300n.

Here is a paste from the terminal of the install, and after I see no wlan0, if I go to Netowrk config in KDE, it does nto show new hardware.

I am confused.

Code:
[root@localhost XP_2K]# ls -la

total 916

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 2007-11-15 15:25 .

drwxr-xr-x 4 root root   4096 2007-11-15 15:25 ..

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  11266 2007-10-18 14:57 bcm43xx.cat

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  84196 2007-10-17 22:28 bcmwl5.inf

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 822400 2007-10-17 22:17 bcmwl5.sys

[root@localhost XP_2K]# ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf

installing bcmwl5 ...

couldn't find "BCMWL564.SYS" in "."; make sure all driver files, including .inf, .sys (and any firmware files) are in "." -

installation may be incomplete

[root@localhost XP_2K]# ndiswrapper -r bcmwl5

[root@localhost XP_2K]# cp bcmwl5.sys BCMWL564.SYS

[root@localhost XP_2K]# ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf

installing bcmwl5 ...

[root@localhost XP_2K]# ndiswrapper -l

bcmwl5 : driver installed

    device (14E4:4329) present (alternate driver: ssb)

[root@localhost XP_2K]# lspci

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a1)

00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)

00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)

00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2)

00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3)

00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3)

00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1)

00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)

00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2)

00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)

00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)

00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)

00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)

00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6100 nForce 430 (rev a2)

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control

01:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43XG (rev 01)

[root@localhost XP_2K]# lspci -n

00:00.0 0500: 10de:03ea (rev a1)

00:01.0 0601: 10de:03e0 (rev a2)

00:01.1 0c05: 10de:03eb (rev a2)

00:01.2 0500: 10de:03f5 (rev a2)

00:02.0 0c03: 10de:03f1 (rev a3)

00:02.1 0c03: 10de:03f2 (rev a3)

00:04.0 0604: 10de:03f3 (rev a1)

00:05.0 0403: 10de:03f0 (rev a2)

00:06.0 0101: 10de:03ec (rev a2)

00:07.0 0680: 10de:03ef (rev a2)

00:08.0 0101: 10de:03f6 (rev a2)

00:09.0 0604: 10de:03e8 (rev a2)

00:0b.0 0604: 10de:03e9 (rev a2)

00:0d.0 0300: 10de:03d0 (rev a2)

00:18.0 0600: 1022:1100

00:18.1 0600: 1022:1101

00:18.2 0600: 1022:1102

00:18.3 0600: 1022:1103

01:09.0 0280: 14e4:4329 (rev 01)

[root@localhost XP_2K]# ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1B:FC:9B:73:B0

      inet addr:192.168.0.109  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

      inet6 addr: fe80::21b:fcff:fe9b:73b0/64 Scope:Link

      UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

      RX packets:28985 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

      TX packets:17898 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

      collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

      RX bytes:32253358 (30.7 MiB)  TX bytes:1751763 (1.6 MiB)

      Interrupt:253 Base address:0x4000

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:7347 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

      TX packets:7347 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

      collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

      RX bytes:2478212 (2.3 MiB)  TX bytes:2478212 (2.3 MiB)

virbr0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr F6:DC:EA:0D:C6:8D

      inet addr:192.168.122.1  Bcast:192.168.122.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

      inet6 addr: fe80::f4dc:eaff:fe0d:c68d/64 Scope:Link

      UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

      RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

      TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

      collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

      RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:4752 (4.6 KiB)

[root@localhost XP_2K]#

Any help would be appriciated...

Atheros AR5bxb61 wont activate in fedora

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:58:28 +0100

Hello I am new to Linux and I have been searching this for a week now. I have a new Toshiba Satellite with the Atheros AR5bxb61 mini pci-e card in it. in the network device control it shows ath0 but when i try to activate it it say's "device does not seem to be present delaying initialization." I am a noob to linux and desperately want to understand and power use linux to it's max, but i am starting to get frustrated cause BT3 live cd & USB both can use my wireless better than windows. can someone help me understand this please.

Thanks

Installing Linksys WMP300N wireless-N USB using ndiswrapper on SUSE 10.2

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:41:40 +0200

I am a linux noob and have spent a considerable amount of time searching for information to help me configure my linksys wireless-N USB adapter. I was finally able to just recently

Fedora 6 - Intel ipw2200

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:09:57 +0200

Hi everyone,

I know this wireless card is a frequent topic, but I can't seem to find a thread which suits my situation.

I recently installed a fresh copy of Fedora 6.

The network config screen shows my wireless card as inactive.

when clicking activate I get the following error:

Cannot activate network device eth1!

ipw2200 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.

Could anyone give me some ideas suited to my issue? There seems to be an awful lot of threads concerning problems with this wireless card...

Thanks in advance,

Rich