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X31 openSUSE and Wifi problems

Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 10:46 am
by jonsteck
I have an X31 I am dual booting with WinXP and openSUSE.
openSUSE is working fairly well except for the Wifi.
I have tried both ifup and networkmanager and I can get the wired network to work but not the wireless. The wifi light will not even light up showing it is on. I have done some diagnostics as suggested on the openSUSE forum and gotten the following output.

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collectNWData.sh V0.6.2.0 (Rev: 1.193, Build: 2010/01/20 21:22:30 UTC)
--- Which type of your network connection should be tested?
--- (2) Wireless connection (WLAN)
--- What's the type of networktopology?
--- (1) WLAN access point <---> LinuxClient
--- On which host is the script executed?
--- (1) LinuxClient
!!! CND0120E: Network card eth1 has no IP address
!!! CND0380E: No WLANs detected on interface eth1. Hardware and/or driver not configured properly
!!! CND0240E: knetworkmanager for network configuration enabled but a YAST network card configuration for eth1,eth0 exist
--- Go to http://www.linux-tips-and-tricks.de/CND#English to get more detailed instructions about the error/warning messages and how to fix the problems on your own
--- Place the contents of file collectNWData.txt in the net (see http://www.linux-tips-and-tricks.de/CND_UPL#English for links) and then paste the nopaste link on your favorite Linux forum.
==================================================================================================================
==================================================================================================================
*** uname -a
Linux linux 2.6.31.8-0.1-default #1 SMP 2009-12-15 23:55:40 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
==================================================================================================================
*** cat /etc/*[-_]release || cat /etc/*[-_]version
/etc/SuSE-release
openSUSE 11.2 (i586)
VERSION = 11.2
==================================================================================================================
*** cat /etc/resolv | grep -i "nameserver"
==================================================================================================================
*** cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.2       linux.site linux
==================================================================================================================
*** route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
==================================================================================================================
*** ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr ##:##:##:##:##:#1  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:22240 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:15523 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:31287628 (29.8 Mb)  TX bytes:1196758 (1.1 Mb)
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr ##:##:##:##:##:#2  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:330 (330.0 b)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000 
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:500 (500.0 b)  TX bytes:500 (500.0 b)
==================================================================================================================
*** ping tests
connect: Network is unreachable
Ping of 195.135.220.3 failed
ping: unknown host www.suse.de
Ping of www.suse.de failed
==================================================================================================================
*** dhcpcd-test
eth1: No DHCP server detected
==================================================================================================================
*** lspci
02:02.0 Network controller [0280]: AIRONET Wireless Communications Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b [14b9:a504]
02:08.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller [8086:103d] (rev 81)
==================================================================================================================
*** lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
==================================================================================================================
*** hwinfo (filtered)
26: PCI 202.0: 0282 WLAN controller
  Model: "AIRONET Wireless Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b"
  Vendor: pci 0x14b9 "AIRONET Wireless Communications"
  Device: pci 0xa504 "Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b"
  SubVendor: pci 0x14b9 "AIRONET Wireless Communications"
  SubDevice: pci 0x5000 
  Driver: "airo"
  Driver Modules: "airo"
  Device File: eth1
  Link detected: yes
    Driver Status: airo is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe airo"
27: PCI 208.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
  Model: "IBM ThinkPad R40"
  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x103d "82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1014 "IBM"
  SubDevice: pci 0x0522 "ThinkPad R40"
  Driver: "e100"
  Driver Modules: "e100"
  Device File: eth0
  Link detected: no
    Driver Status: e100 is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe e100"
    Driver Status: eepro100 is not active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe eepro100"
==================================================================================================================
*** lsmod # (filtered)
| ac              | ac97_bus        | acpi_cpufreq    | aead            | aes_generic      |
| aes_i586        | af_packet       | ahci            | airo            | ata_piix         |
| battery         | cpufreq_conservative| cpufreq_powersave| cpufreq_userspace| crc16            |
| crc_ccitt       | drm             | e100            | edd             | ehci_hcd         |
| fat             | floppy          | fscache         | fuse            | hwmon            |
| i2c_core        | i2c_i801        | ieee1394        | intel_agp       | irda             |
| iTCO_vendor_support| iTCO_wdt        | jbd2            | led_class       | libata           |
| nls_cp437       | nls_iso8859_1   | nsc_ircc        | ohci1394        | output           |
| pci_hotplug     | pcmcia_core     | pcompress       | ppdev           | radeon           |
| rfkill          | rsrc_nonstatic  | sg              | shpchp          | snd_ac97_codec   |
| snd_intel8x0    | snd_intel8x0m   | snd_seq_device  | speedstep_lib   | thermal          |
| thermal_sys     | thinkpad_acpi   | uhci_hcd        | usb_storage     | vfat             |
| video           | yenta_socket    |
==================================================================================================================
*** cat /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth1 | egrep -v ".*=''"
BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
STARTMODE='off'
IFPLUGD_PRIORITY='20'
USERCONTROL='no'
BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
INTERFACETYPE='wlan'
NAME='Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b'
STARTMODE='auto'
USERCONTROL='yes'
WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='psk'
WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto'
WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0'
WIRELESS_ESSID='S#e#k#l#e#g'
WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='@@@@@@'
WIRELESS_MODE='Managed'
WIRELESS_POWER='yes'
WIRELESS_WPA_PSK='@@@@@@'
==================================================================================================================
*** iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.
irda0     no wireless extensions.
eth0      no wireless extensions.
eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:""  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Invalid   
          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/65535  
          Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/100  Signal level=-111 dBm  Noise level=-111 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:2  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
wifi0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:""  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Invalid   
          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/65535  
          Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/100  Signal level=-111 dBm  Noise level=-111 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:2  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
==================================================================================================================
*** Actual date for bias of following greps
19:36:51 2010-02-03
==================================================================================================================
*** grep -i radio /var/log/messages* | tail -n 5
==================================================================================================================
*** dmesg | grep -i radio | tail -n 5
==================================================================================================================
*** tail -n 300 /var/log/messages* | /usr/bin/grep -i firmware | tail -n 5
==================================================================================================================
*** ls /lib/firmware/*
| 2.6.31.8-0.1-default    | 3CCFEM556.cis           | 3com                    | 3CXEM556.cis             |
| acenic                  | adaptec                 | advansys                | agere_ap_fw.bin          |
| agere_sta_fw.bin        | aic94xx-seq.fw          | aica_firmware.bin       | ar9170-1.fw              |
| ar9170-2.fw             | asihpi                  | atmel_at76c502_3com.bin | atmel_at76c502_3com-wpa.bin |
| atmel_at76c502.bin      | atmel_at76c502d.bin     | atmel_at76c502d-wpa.bin | atmel_at76c502e.bin      |
| atmel_at76c502e-wpa.bin | atmel_at76c502-wpa.bin  | atmel_at76c503-i3861.bin| atmel_at76c503-i3863.bin |
| atmel_at76c503-rfmd-0.90.2-140.bin| atmel_at76c503-rfmd-acc.bin| atmel_at76c503-rfmd.bin | atmel_at76c504_2958-wpa.bin |
| atmel_at76c504a_2958-wpa.bin| atmel_at76c504.bin      | atmel_at76c504c-wpa.bin | atmel_at76c505a-rfmd2958.bin |
| atmel_at76c505-rfmd2958.bin| atmel_at76c505-rfmd.bin | atmel_at76c506.bin      | atmel_at76c506-wpa.bin   |
| atmsar11.fw             | av7110                  | b43                     | b43legacy                |
| BCM2033-FW.bin          | BCM2033-MD.hex          | bfubase.frm             | bnx2                     |
| bnx2x-e1-4.8.53.0.fw    | bnx2x-e1h-4.8.53.0.fw   | cis                     | COMpad2.cis              |
| COMpad4.cis             | cpia2                   | cxgb3                   | dabusb                   |
| digiface_firmware.bin   | digiface_firmware_rev11.bin| DP83903.cis             | dsp56k                   |
| dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw| dvb-ttpci-01.fw         | dvb-ttpci-01.fw-2622    | e100                     |
| ea                      | E-CARD.cis              | edgeport                | emagic                   |
| emi26                   | emi62                   | emu                     | ess                      |
| i2400m-fw-usb-1.3.sbcf  | i2400m-fw-usb-1.4.sbcf  | intelliport2.bin        | ipw2100-1.3.fw           |
| ipw2100-1.3-i.fw        | ipw2100-1.3-p.fw        | ipw2200-bss.fw          | ipw2200-ibss.fw          |
| ipw2200-sniffer.fw      | ipw-2.2-boot.fw         | ipw-2.2-bss.fw          | ipw-2.2-bss_ucode.fw     |
| ipw-2.2-ibss.fw         | ipw-2.2-ibss_ucode.fw   | ipw-2.3-boot.fw         | ipw-2.3-bss.fw           |
| ipw-2.3-bss_ucode.fw    | ipw-2.3-ibss.fw         | ipw-2.3-ibss_ucode.fw   | ipw-2.3-sniffer.fw       |
| ipw-2.3-sniffer_ucode.fw| ipw-2.4-boot.fw         | ipw-2.4-bss.fw          | ipw-2.4-bss_ucode.fw     |
| ipw-2.4-ibss.fw         | ipw-2.4-ibss_ucode.fw   | ipw-2.4-sniffer.fw      | ipw-2.4-sniffer_ucode.fw |
| iwlwifi-1000-3.ucode    | iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode    | iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode    | iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode     |
| iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode    | iwlwifi-5150-2.ucode    | kaweth                  | keyspan                  |
| keyspan_pda             | korg                    | LA-PCM.cis              | libertas                 |
| LICENCE.agere           | LICENCE.atheros_firmware| LICENCE.i2400m          | LICENCE.iwlwifi_firmware |
| LICENCE.libertas        | LICENCE.mwl8k           | LICENCE.qla2xxx         | LICENCE.ralink-firmware.txt |
| LICENCE.xc5000          | LICENSE.ipw2200-fw      | LICENSE.ipw2x00         | mixart                   |
| MT5634ZLX.cis           | mts_cdma.fw             | mts_edge.fw             | mts_gsm.fw               |
| multiface_firmware.bin  | multiface_firmware_rev11.bin| mwl8k                   | myricom                  |
| NE2K.cis                | ositech                 | PCMLM28.cis             | pcxhr                    |
| PE-200.cis              | PE520.cis               | ql2100_fw.bin           | ql2200_fw.bin            |
| ql2300_fw.bin           | ql2322_fw.bin           | ql2400_fw.bin           | ql2500_fw.bin            |
| qlogic                  | RS-COM-2P.cis           | rt2561.bin              | rt2561s.bin              |
| rt2661.bin              | rt2860.bin              | rt2870.bin              | rt73.bin                 |
| sb16                    | slicoss                 | STLC2500_R4_00_03.ptc   | STLC2500_R4_00_06.ssf    |
| STLC2500_R4_02_02_WLAN.ssf| STLC2500_R4_02_04.ptc   | sun                     | sxg                      |
| tamarack.cis            | tehuti                  | ti_3410.fw              | ti_5052.fw               |
| tigon                   | tr_smctr.bin            | ttusb-budget            | usbdux                   |
| usbduxfast_firmware.bin | usbdux_firmware.bin     | v4l-cx231xx-avcore-01.fw| v4l-cx23418-apu.fw       |
| v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw      | v4l-cx23418-dig.fw      | v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw| v4l-cx23885-enc.fw       |
| v4l-cx25840.fw          | vicam                   | vx                      | whiteheat.fw             |
| whiteheat_loader.fw     | yam                     | yamaha                  | zd1211                   |
==================================================================================================================
*** ndiswrapper -l
No ndiswrapper module loaded
==================================================================================================================
*** Active processes
wpa_supplicant:YES knetworkmanager:NO nm-applet:YES
==================================================================================================================
*** egrep -i "persistent|networkmanager" /etc/sysconfig/network/config | grep -v "^#|^$"
NETWORKMANAGER="yes"
==================================================================================================================
*** grep 'eth|ath|wlan|ra' /etc/udev/rules.d/*net_persistent* /etc/udev/rules.d/*persistent-net*
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules:SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="##:##:##:##:##:#2", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules:SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="##:##:##:##:##:#1", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"
==================================================================================================================
*** grep -r 'eth[0-10]|ath[0-10]|wlan[0-10]|ra[0-10]' /etc/modprobe.*
==================================================================================================================
*** iwlist scanning
No WLANs found
==================================================================================================================
*** NWElizaStates
IF:eth0 IM:1 IF:eth1 IM:2 DI:2 AP:0 dI:0 NIC:1 cNiC:2:1 NI:2 cNI:2 NIW:eth1-1 NDIS:0 NIWL:0 CM:0 IP6:0 KM:1 WLW:0 RTDT:SuSE
I am not getting any help from the openSUSE forum.
Can anyone here geve me some help?
Sorry about the long post but I know it is important to give all the info I can so that people can help me diagnose the problem.

Thanks
Jon Steckelberg

Re: X31 openSUSE and Wifi problems

Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 12:16 pm
by Harryc
The first thing I'd look at is encryption. You Cisco card is configured for 'psk'. I know that the card supports WPA, but does the driver? Try running with no encryption as a test...turn it off in your router and in your Linux wireless config.

Re: X31 openSUSE and Wifi problems

Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 12:23 pm
by PizzaandWine
On a Ubuntu-based distro I was having similar issues with networkmanager and Wifi. I switched to WICD for network management, and made sure I was running the ath5k driver on an x31. Your output doesn't seem to include the ath5k driver, so you might try it out (not sure if all x31 cards are supported or not.) This seemed to clear it (mostly) up--occasionally I'll still have moments where it appears it is just not connecting to the bus the wireless card is connected to, getting no signal at all.

Re: X31 openSUSE and Wifi problems

Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 12:28 pm
by Harryc
I don't beleive the chipset in the Cisco Aironet is Atheros. It is a proprietary Cisco chipset. airo should be the correct module.

Re: X31 openSUSE and Wifi problems

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:46 am
by jonsteck
Thanks for the replies.
One thing I find odd is that the Wifi light that shows the Wifi is active never comes on.
It's like the card is not getting turned on.
Am I correct in assuming that the light must be on for the card to be working?

Thanks

Re: X31 openSUSE and Wifi problems

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:56 pm
by PizzaandWine
That is odd--and is exactly the same problem I have occasionally. It simply seems like there is no wireless device powered on / installed...and then it will clear itself up after a reboot or two (or sometimes just after a few minutes sitting.) I don't think the light has to be on for the card working, though i could be wrong. In my case the led's are controlled by thinkpad_acpi which may/may not having anything to do with the card being on and off. I will say though that when my card isn't working, there is no light, and vice versa.

Harryc is, as always, right...hadn't picked up on the cisco card in your output.

Please let us know if you figure out what is going on with the card not being turned on, as I'd like to make mine more reliable as well.
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