Unable to connect to IPW2100 WIFI

[pompeyrodney]

I have an old Dell laptop that will not connect to my WPA PS2 router. I am forced to use Ethernet cable which works ok. It seems to not recognise my password which I know is correct. It is however seeing my SSID ok. Here are the details from the terminal.

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rfkill list && iwconfig && mokutil --sb-state 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
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
          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

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iwlist scan
ESSID:"VM########"
                    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:97  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
                    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                        Group Cipher : CCMP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
 iwconfig
 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
          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

If any further info is needed please let me know. Thanks in advance of any help.

[sleeper12]

Let's see:

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 inxi -Fxxxrz && mokutil --sb-state 

[pompeyrodney]

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 inxi -Fxxxrz && mokutil --sb-state
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: 12.5/11.1 
  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: 1199 
  Speed: 600 MHz min/max: 600/1500 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 600 
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: 11.57 GiB (31.0%) 
  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: 11.36 GiB (32.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 1.58 GiB used: 208.5 MiB (12.9%) fs: swap 
  dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 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://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
  3: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
  4: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
  5: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ buster-backports main contrib non-free
Info:
  Processes: 153 Uptime: 1h 34m Memory: 1.47 GiB used: 843.6 MiB (55.9%) 
  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 
EFI variables are not supported on this system

Thank you.

[sleeper12]

I'm not familiar enough with LMDE 4 to help, but those details might be useful to someone else.

[HAWR]

Hello pompeyrodney,

I can imagine because of your very old hardware, that the problem hast to do with the security encryption. Your wifi card only supports WEP standard, but the most modern routers are set to WPA2. Can you open your router configuration and have a look. If it's WPA2, see if there is a mixed mode for WEP, maybe also a mixed mode with WPA.

[pompeyrodney]

Thank you for responding. I thought the same so looked at my router, I seem to only have the options of WPA2-PSK or WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK. Would it be worth trying the second option perhaps?

[HAWR]

Yes, just try the option WPA/WPA2. There are different statements about WEP and WPA for your card in the internet.

[pompeyrodney]

I have changed the encryption option to WPA but still cannot connect, I think I shall try my router with encryption disabled to see if I can then connect, that way I would then know it was the card that lacked the capability to work with WPA, will report back. Is there a command that would show me the encryption standards supported please?

[pompeyrodney]

I have now tried removing the SSID security thus not requiring encryption, but I am still not able to log in. As this is the wrong forum section for LMDE, I shall head over to networking and repost my findings.

[Moem]

Mod note:
You know, you can ask us to move a topic. In cases like this, we will be happy to do so. Just hit the 'report' button and leave us a short note so we know what is going on.
Since this is now a duplicate, I will lock it up.