The wireless card that I have has Wimax capabilities but I I am unable to get it functioning properly.
I ran
sudo apt-get install firmware-intelwimax
which then made the wimax portion of the card recognizable but still not functionable.
ifconfig
only showed
luke@vsido-asus:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 20:cf:30:66:f9:f8
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:29 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:29 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3278 (3.2 KiB) TX bytes:3278 (3.2 KiB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:15:36:d8:68
inet addr:192.168.0.116 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::223:15ff:fe36:d868/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:22806 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:15119 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:29532032 (28.1 MiB) TX bytes:1620948 (1.5 MiB)
but I could see it recognized
iwconfig
wmx0 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"Wils Sport And Tackle"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 58:6D:8F:55:3B:B4
Bit Rate=130 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-40 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:2809 Invalid misc:94 Missed beacon:0
So I ran
sudo ifconfig wmx0 up
iwconfig
wmx0 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"Wils Sport And Tackle"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 58:6D:8F:55:3B:B4
Bit Rate=130 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-40 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:2809 Invalid misc:94 Missed beacon:0
Which gave me
ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 20:cf:30:66:f9:f8
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:29 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:29 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3278 (3.2 KiB) TX bytes:3278 (3.2 KiB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:15:36:d8:68
inet addr:192.168.0.116 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::223:15ff:fe36:d868/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:23374 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:15571 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:30155199 (28.7 MiB) TX bytes:1682334 (1.6 MiB)
wmx0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 64:d4:da:04:95:fc
UP NOARP MTU:1400 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:20
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
iwconfig
wmx0 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"Wils Sport And Tackle"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 58:6D:8F:55:3B:B4
Bit Rate=130 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-40 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:2809 Invalid misc:94 Missed beacon:0
but still no wireless capabilities with wmx0.
My guess is that like in Windows when wifi is enabled then wimax is disabled. So my question is how would I disable wifi and enable wimax?
sudo rfkill list wimax
gives me
luke@vsido-asus:~$ sudo rfkill list wimax
1: asus-wimax: WiMAX
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
3: i2400m-usb:1-1.1:1.0: WiMAX
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
so as you can see wimax is blocked for some reason.
Any ideas?
Interesting, nobody has any ideas on this? That's a first :P
Can you take down the wireless with:
ifconfig wlan0 down
then bring up your wmx0?
Are you using ceni? If so, you may be able to set the network interfaces in the /etc/network/interfaces either manually or with ceni - I don't know if ceni has an option not to bring up the interface. On reboot you may then be set.
Actually, now that I think about it some more, assign your wireless an ip address for a network you're not using in your shop/home. Then reboot so wlan0 is not active. You may be able to use ceni or wicd to bring up wmx0.
Something tells me you're going to have to use ceni and the /etc/network/interfaces file to make this work - some old school.
Thanks Packrat Ill test this tomorrow. Taking the wireless down doesnt seem to make a difference but I havent had a chance to test with ceni. Will update asap.
No problem -
I was doing some more research on this; looks like others have had to install some additional wimax tools to get it working - none of which seem to be in the repos; but sources available on 3rd party sites. Also saw some references to using network-manager since it has wimax support (some posts - indicate that wimax support needs to be compiled into network-manager with --enable-wimax flag (https://dennismungai.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/how-to-recompile-network-manager-networkmanager-0-9-with-wimax-support-on-debian-based-distributions/)).
There are also references to installing the wimax stack - if that is not default, you might have to compile a custom kernel.
Of course, there is no frackin' HowTo for all this on the Debin wiki or user forum.
Good luck, Amigo.
Been stuck at home with this fantastic flu that everyone seems to be getting (at least around here) and after sleeping for a couple days its now 1am and I feel it necessary to continue my quest to get wimax working properly.
Once I get this figured out Ill post a howto.
^ Hope you feel better mate... and I hope that is not Captain Trips you are dealing with in Cali
Feel better soon!
Get well soon, i miss having you to kick around and pester :D
Thanks guys! Im back and trying to get this nonsense worked out........... I wish Jedi was here to punch me in the face!
This is where Im at....
I got network-manager installed and seem to have support for wimax
(http://en.zimagez.com/miniature/screenshot-03102014-120256am.png) (http://en.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-03102014-120256am.php)
and I added the wimax connection
(http://en.zimagez.com/miniature/screenshot-03102014-120346am.png) (http://en.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-03102014-120346am.php)
I can run
sudo rfkill list
luke@vsido-asus:~$ rfkill list
0: asus-wwan: Wireless WAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: asus-wimax: WiMAX
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: i2400m-usb:1-1.1:1.0: WiMAX
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
but I still cant seem to unblock the wimax adaptor
I tried running
sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
sudo ifconfig wmx0 up
but I think I need wimax-tools which I dont have any clue how to get installed. Wimax-tools is required to scan for Clear's network which is the one I need to connect to.
Looks like wimax-tools needs to be compiled from source - libnl is a dependency and available in the repos.
Arch wiki has a link to debian source package - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wimax-tools/
there are also a bunch of git repositories; may be worth a search to find the official one - this one has some install instructions: https://github.com/ago/wimax-tools - and looks to be the official git repo.
Take a look at the bodhi forums; There are a couple of threads where people are trying to get this to work - lots of commands to try to see if your wimax is being hard/soft blocked and getting the wimax unlocked. Latest one I saw was from 2012 though - I'd like to think all the patching and compiling that poor guy did is now part of the kernel and wpasupplicant.
Done fighting this (at least for now) and going to just cancel my Clear account and invest in extra soothing menthol crab removing shampoo.
Thanks for the help PackRat