IPW3945 wireless card detects network, but does not connect

Can you provide the output of "iwlist ath0 scanning"

Hey

It says:
"ath0 Interface doesn't support scanning."

Ok, I assumed it was ath0.

If you type 'iwconfig', and take the device that has wireless extensions into the iwlist command, what output do you get?

for example on my system (see below), I would use ath0, but yours may be eth1 or something else.
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dan@silver:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

wifi0 no wireless extensions.

ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Nickname:""
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
          Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/94 Signal level=-94 dBm Noise level=-94 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:11804 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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Okay, here's what it's saying:

$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 IEEE 802.11g Frequency:2.422 GHz
          RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: 00:40:05:C2:FC:F3
          RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
          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

$ iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0 No scan results

$ iwlist wmaster0 scanning
wmaster0 Failed to read scan data : Operation not supported

Try prepending "sudo " to those commands

as root, those commands give the same results.

Beth, sorry I've been travelling, glad you have this resolved.

How did you solve this? The thread ends without a solution and I am having the same problem.

Thanks!

I actually did not manage to solve this... I still can't connect. Maybe we could solve it together...

hey!

So I'm a student and my exams recently ended, and I have time to fix this again.

I have noticed that my wireless card does not connect at my school. It finds the wireless signal, tries to connect but fails.

I was at a hotel a few weeks ago, and it did manage to connect to that wireless signal, however, failed to load the hotel's website where you're required to 'agree' to things before it moves forward.

I don't think it's a problem with the drivers... could there be some sort of firewall issue or security flaw?

Please help!
Beth