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Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

Downloaded and installed windows driver for ACER Aspire 3610
So far I successfully installed and got running ndiswrapper, acer_acpi and played "enabled : 1" > /proc/acpi/acer/wireless" 

So driver and wireless are now working flawless...see [0]

Then I type `iwlist wlan0 scan' and get
wlan0     Scan completed :
         Cell 01 - Address: 00:14:F8:51:11:40
                 >>ESSID:"ASUNCION"
                   Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                   Mode:Managed
                   Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
                   Quality:0/100  Signal level:-80 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
                   Encryption key:off
                   Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
                   (...)
                   Bit Rate:48 Mb/s
                   Extra:bcn_int=100
                   Extra:atim=0
         Cell 02 - Address: 00:0A:73:FD:90:12
                 >>ESSID:"WebSTAR"
                   Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                   Mode:Managed
                   Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
                   Quality:0/100  Signal level:-85 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
                   Encryption key:on
                   Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
                   (...)
                   Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
                   Extra:bcn_int=100
                   Extra:atim=0
                   Extra:wpa_ie=dd160050f20101000050f20201000050f20201000050f202
         Cell 03 - Address: 00:30:BD:FD:AF:B0
                 >>ESSID:"ANCE"
                   Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                   Mode:Managed
                   Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
                   Quality:0/100  Signal level:-87 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
                   Encryption key:on
                   Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
                   (...)
                   Bit Rate:48 Mb/s
                   Extra:bcn_int=100
                   Extra:atim=0

So I assume we've got three wireless networks available here: ASUNCION, WebSTAR and ANCE.

How could I connect to one of them...? Or at least to the first one, which
is the only one that has got the `Encryption Key: off'. Chances are that with Encryption Key: on
things become harder....but I am not sure of this...as I am still a Debian Wireless newbie....

*Checked out* `man iwlist' and `man iwconfig', which are not very specific about logging onto a remote network.

*Checked out* [1] as well, but it assumes you have got a wireless router, which is not my case.
Besides, no matter I type `iwconfig wlan0 essid <mynetworkname>' I get upon doing `iwconfig wlan0': IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any. 

I know I am probably only a step to get it...but still need some help, maybe pointing good
documentation relating to it....

In short: I am unable to get an IP address:
dhclient wlan0

Listening on LPF/wlan0/00.14:a4:25:bd:3b
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00.14:a4:25:bd:3b
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database.

Sleeping.

Though I am still digging hard on man iwconfig, I don't manage to find
something clear, maybe due to my own limitations....:-(

Help is *very* appreciated.

Cheers,
Juanjavier Martínez.


[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2006/03/msg00083.html
[1] http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Networking/Linux_Wireles_LAN
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