[SWLUG] Wireless USB Dongle Help

[P.G. Richardson]

I am gonna recommend the command line at this point ...

The wireless tools of iwconfig, iwlist and wpa_supplicant will tell you
more about where the problem lies than any of the gui tools imho.

Firstly, as root (su to root or use sudo depending on your distro), run
iwconfig.

This will display text like the following if connected:
wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"BUZZARD"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.457 GHz  Access Point: 00:EE:EE:EE:EE:BA
          Bit Rate=11 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B
          Encryption key:EEEE-EEEE-EEEE-EEEE-EEEE-EEEE-EEEE-EEEE [2]  
Security mode:open
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=70/70  Signal level=-23 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

If failing to connect then ESSID maybe unknown/blank, Access Point will
say "Not Associated" and Encryption Key may lack a value.

Lets start there ...

Regards

PGR

> Hiya,
>
> Yes it is picking up the USB Device no problem. I am as far as it is
> working and detecting networks in network-manager but when I say
> 'connect' and enter the passkey it just hangs at the 'connecting...'
> stage and never gets anywhere (neither success nor failure).
>
> Jon Reynolds
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:00:25PM +0000, Michael Johnson wrote:
>>  You could try looking for the 'Plug and Play-Aware OS' option in the
>> BIOS. The distro should at least be picking up a USB device.
>>
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