I have recently re-installed Mint Linux 17 on my little c50 netbook – 64 bit edition. It was 32 bit before... and I remembered why I always went 32 bit in the past because this kept happening in 64 bits no matter what the machine! But I can't live on 32 bits forever.
It seems to me that the wlan0 is not set with encryption on. But all attempts to set it on are not working using iwconfig. I am sure this is something simple but I can't find it even with online searches and reading the manual.
Note: I am using Mint KDE edition and initially just went with the network manager but no joy. Then to online reading and iwlist and iwconfig,
Feedback from mintWifi.py:
Here is the output from iwconfig at work on the c50:wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"TP-LINK_KAPLAN"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 54:04:a6:49:0f:f9
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)
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:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:2357 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2357 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:185629 (185.6 KB) TX bytes:185629 (185.6 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:ca:20:bd:3f
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)
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 168c:002b (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
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* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com…
Then iwlist scan…wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"TP-LINK_KAPLAN"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: E8:94:F6:F5:0D:D6
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=34/70 Signal level=-76 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"TP-LINK_KAPLAN"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
Bit Rates:24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=0000000887ac79b8
Extra: Last beacon: 8ms ago
IE: Unknown: 000E54502D4C494E4B5F4B41504C414E
IE: Unknown: 010882848B960C121824
IE: Unknown: 030106
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: Unknown: 32043048606C
IE: Unknown: 2D1AEF1103FFFF0000000000000000000000000000000406E6E70D00
IE: Unknown: 331AEF1103FFFF0000000000000000000000000000000406E6E70D00
IE: Unknown: 3D1606071500000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: 341606071500000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101840003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
IE: Unknown: DD0900037F01010000FF7F
IE: Unknown: DD9E0050F204104A0001101044000102103B00010310470010000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F1021000754502D4C494E4B10230009544C2D4D523334323010240003312E3010420003312E301054000800060050F20400011011001E576972656C657373204E2033472F344720526F75746572204D5233343230100800020086103C000101104900140024E26002000101600000020001600100020001
And from my (still) 32bit atom laptop which works!
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"TP-LINK_KAPLAN"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: E8:94:F6:F5:0D:D6
Bit Rate=81 Mb/s Tx-Power=16 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=28/70 Signal level=-82 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:5 Invalid misc:1344 Missed beacon:0
Thanks in advance. I need this little machine for work.wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: E8:94:F6:F5:0D:D6
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=26/70 Signal level=-84 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"TP-LINK_KAPLAN"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
Bit Rates:24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=000000088c6511d6
Extra: Last beacon: 4ms ago
IE: Unknown: 000E54502D4C494E4B5F4B41504C414E
IE: Unknown: 010882848B960C121824
IE: Unknown: 030106
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: Unknown: 32043048606C
IE: Unknown: 2D1AEF1103FFFF0000000000000000000000000000000406E6E70D00
IE: Unknown: 331AEF1103FFFF0000000000000000000000000000000406E6E70D00
IE: Unknown: 3D1606071500000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: 341606071500000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101840003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
IE: Unknown: DD0900037F01010000FF7F
IE: Unknown: DD9E0050F204104A0001101044000102103B00010310470010000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F1021000754502D4C494E4B10230009544C2D4D523334323010240003312E3010420003312E301054000800060050F20400011011001E576972656C657373204E2033472F344720526F75746572204D5233343230100800020086103C000101104900140024E26002000101600000020001600100020001