[driverloader] Connection to the AP is there but only Invalid
Misc Packets appears
Linuxant support (Jonathan)
support at linuxant.com
Mon May 30 14:00:22 EDT 2005
Hi,
we are aware that the invalid misc. packets value is increasing in the
output of the 'iwconfig' command on some systems with wireless cards
based on the Broadcom chipset but this problem should not prevent the
use of the wireless interface.
If you are unable to use your wireless connection, please send at
support at linuxant.com the output of the following commands in a root
shell while the wireless interface is up:
---
ip route
cat /etc/resolv.conf
---
In the output of the 'iwconfig' command, we can see that you are
connected to the access point and in the output of the 'ifconfig'
command, we can see that you have an IP address for the wireless
interface. However, IP routing and DNS information might not be properly
configured and the output of the commands above will help us figure out
if this is the source of the problem or not.
Regards,
Jonathan
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com
Fabian Wilhelm wrote:
> Dear Linuxant
>
> I have installed your product on a Acer Aspire WLMI 1510. I have a
> NETGEAR-WLAN-ROUTER WPN284. Further I have a Belkin F507010 PCMCIA Card and
> try to load it with the Broadcom Generic Driver from your website-link
> (netbc564.inf, bcmwl564.sys) and Linuxant. I load the driver, an read in a
> trial license from your site.
> After I have set an essid the iwconfig-output looks as followed:
>
> # iwconfig
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> sit0 no wireless extensions.
>
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"ANAME" Nickname:"unknown"
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:B5:A7:B6:52
> Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=25 dBm
> RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Encryption key:off
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality=35/94 Signal level=-51 dBm Noise level=-154 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:3897 Missed beacon:0
>
> Other Outputs which could probably be helpfull you can see at the end of this
> message.
>
> How you can see, I only receive Invalid Misc packets.
> My WinXP-Client can connect without any problems.
>
> Have you any idea why??
>
> Thanks a lot for your help
>
> with kindly regards
>
> Fabian Wilhelm
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> iwlist wlan0 scanning
> wlan0 Scan completed :
> Cell 01 - Address: 00:0F:B5:A7:B6:52
> ESSID:"WLANMETROWING"
> Mode:Managed
> Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
> Quality:94/94 Signal level:-37 dBm Noise level:-154 dBm
> Encryption key:off
> Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
> Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
> Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
> Bit Rate:6 Mb/s
> Bit Rate:9 Mb/s
> Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
> Bit Rate:12 Mb/s
> Bit Rate:18 Mb/s
> Bit Rate:24 Mb/s
> Bit Rate:36 Mb/s
> Bit Rate:48 Mb/s
> Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
> Extra:bcn_int=100
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ifconfig -a
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E4:A1:9F:53
> inet addr:192.168.69.76 Bcast:192.168.69.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e4ff:fea1:9f53/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:3224 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:2600 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:2747078 (2.6 Mb) TX bytes:316480 (309.0 Kb)
> Interrupt:201 Base address:0x6400
>
> 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:2395 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:2395 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:1604268 (1.5 Mb) TX bytes:1604268 (1.5 Mb)
>
> sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
> NOARP MTU:1480 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:0
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
> wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:50:1C:59:6E
> inet addr:192.168.69.57 Bcast:192.168.69.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::211:50ff:fe1c:596e/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:460 (460.0 b)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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