Cannnot authenticate with IPW2100

[pompeyrodney]

I am re-posting after not realising there was a separate section for LMDE, original post is at viewtopic.php?f=52&t=366304&p=2128666#p2128666

If ok I shall repost diagnostics information.

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inxi -Fxxxrz
System:
  Host: mish Kernel: 4.19.0-18-686 i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.7 wm: muffin 5.0.2 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
  Distro: LMDE 4 Debbie base: Debian 10.2 buster 
Machine:
  Type: Portable System: Dell product: Inspiron 8600 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Chassis: type: 8 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0D2465 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A00 
  date: 07/01/2003 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 47.0 Wh condition: 47.0/72.0 Wh (65%) volts: 12.4/11.1 
  model: Sanyo DELL 0002P6 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
CPU:
  Topology: Single Core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 type: MCP 
  arch: M Banias rev: 5 L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
  flags: sse sse2 bogomips: 1198 
  Speed: 600 MHz min/max: 600/1500 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 1500 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA NV31M [GeForce FX Go5650] vendor: Dell driver: nouveau 
  v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:031b 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: nouveau 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: nv resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: NV31 v: 1.5 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM AC97 Audio vendor: Dell 
  driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.5 chip ID: 8086:24c5 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-18-686 
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4401 100Base-T vendor: Dell Dimension 2400 
  driver: b44 v: 2.0 port: bc40 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:4401 
  Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter driver: ipw2100 
  v: git-1.2.2 port: bc40 bus ID: 02:03.0 chip ID: 8086:1043 
  IF: wlp2s3 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 37.26 GiB used: 9.95 GiB (26.7%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: IC25N040ATCS04-0 size: 37.26 GiB 
  speed: <unknown> serial: <filter> rev: A72A scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 34.86 GiB used: 9.88 GiB (28.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 1.58 GiB used: 73.2 MiB (4.5%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/packages.linuxmint.com/packages debbie main upstream import backport
  2: deb http://mirror.lchost.net/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
  3: deb http://mirror.lchost.net/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
  4: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
  5: deb http://mirror.lchost.net/debian/ buster-backports main contrib non-free
Info:
  Processes: 162 Uptime: 59m Memory: 1.47 GiB used: 901.3 MiB (59.7%) 
  Init: systemd v: 241 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.3 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.32

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sudo iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

wlp2s3    unassociated  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"ipw2100"
          Mode:Managed  Channel=0  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:16 dBm   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

eth0      no wireless extensions.

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iwlist wlp2s3 scan
wlp2s3    Scan completed :[code]

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Cell 02 - Address: 
                    ESSID:"VM1368586"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                    Mode:Master
                    Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
                    Encryption key:on
                    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; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Quality:85  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    Extra: Last beacon: 16ms ago

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sudo ip link set wlp2s3 up

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dmesg | grep firmware
[   31.943698] ipw2100 0000:02:03.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware ipw2100-1.3.fw

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dmesg | grep ipw2100
[   31.361865] ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, git-1.2.2
[   31.361868] ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[   31.362488] ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection
[   31.943698] ipw2100 0000:02:03.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware ipw2100-1.3.fw
[   32.277290] ipw2100 0000:02:03.0 wlp2s3: renamed from eth1

I have tried turning off security as I was told the Intel 2100 card does not support WPA2, perhaps not even WPA, but I still cannot authenticate, password is correct. I would be most grateful of any help offered as this machine is owned by a very good friend of mine. Thanks.

[vimes666]

I have tried turning off security as I was told the Intel 2100 card does not support WPA2

You have to set the router to accept WPA as well as WPA2. Something like this in my router:



This is not something you would like to do for an extended period of time because it is unsafe.

[HAWR]

Hello pompeyrodney,

can you setup a hotspot with a phone and connect to it?

In your network connection settings for your network, you can try the following: Specify the BSSID (the MACaddress of your router) and select your device (wlp2s3 or MAC address). And disable IPv6. Maybe this helps. But I have to say, I don't know LMDE and how the network.settings are there.

Are there many networks around you? What shows (terminal fullscreen):-

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nmcli device wifi list

[pompeyrodney]

I have tried turning off security as I was told the Intel 2100 card does not support WPA2

You have to set the router to accept WPA as well as WPA2. Something like this in my router:



This is not something you would like to do for an extended period of time because it is unsafe.

Hi, I have tried the router option of WPA/WPA2 with no joy, I will try to connect to a hotspot on my phone though I am not sure what encryption that is using?

[HAWR]

Hello pompeyrodney,

I have an android phone connected to my home network with WPA2. I can configure the phone hotspot without security (there are two options: no and WPA2). I can only configure it, when the hotspot is disabled, by pressing a little longer on the hotspot entry. In the advanced view I can change the security.

[JerryF]

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I have tried turning off security as I was told the Intel 2100 card does not support WPA2, perhaps not even WPA, but I still cannot authenticate, password is correct. I would be most grateful of any help offered as this machine is owned by a very good friend of mine. Thanks.

You're correct about the Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini-PCI Adapter. It doesn't have WPA/WPA2 capability. You'd need to set your router's setting to WEP encryption.

If your router has the capability, my suggestion would be to change out the Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini-PCI Adapter with a more updated one which I think you can on your machine. As of now, the maximum speed you have is an 802.11b (11 Mbps). Even an 802.11g (54 Mbps) would be a great improvement.

It all depends on your router's capability.

[pompeyrodney]

Hello pompeyrodney,

I have an android phone connected to my home network with WPA2. I can configure the phone hotspot without security (there are two options: no and WPA2). I can only configure it, when the hotspot is disabled, by pressing a little longer on the hotspot entry. In the advanced view I can change the security.

Hi HAWR
With the hotspot option I am able to connect to my phone with the security off. If i then turned on security (WPA2-Personal), to my surprise I can still connect. Can I ask what you make of that please?

[pompeyrodney]

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I have tried turning off security as I was told the Intel 2100 card does not support WPA2, perhaps not even WPA, but I still cannot authenticate, password is correct. I would be most grateful of any help offered as this machine is owned by a very good friend of mine. Thanks.

You're correct about the Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini-PCI Adapter. It doesn't have WPA/WPA2 capability. You'd need to set your router's setting to WEP encryption.

If your router has the capability, my suggestion would be to change out the Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini-PCI Adapter with a more updated one which I think you can on your machine. As of now, the maximum speed you have is an 802.11b (11 Mbps). Even an 802.11g (54 Mbps) would be a great improvement.

It all depends on your router's capability.

Hi Jerry
I didn't realise that was what the B meant in the name, I thought it would be at least G rated. If I am sable to swap out the card for something faster then I think that is a no brainer, thanks for your help.

[HAWR]

Yes, that would be better, but fitting cards are not so wides spreaded. But this here fits and supports wpa and 802.11B/G (see the product details):

https://www.parts-people.com/index.php? ... em&id=4225