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Re: wireless in 4.02



marc wrote:

>Yes, I use a wireless card and DHCP.
>
>You don't show your interfaces entry, but it should read something
>like:
>
>iface eth0 inet dhcp
>name Wireless LAN card
>wireless_essid YOURESSID
>
>After than, an ifup eth0 should activate the card, even if ESSID
>broadcasting is deactivated.
>  
>
I don't have that in interfaces, but the Knoppix automatic stuff
works as expected. the server is found, a connection is established,
all is well:

knoppix@0[knoppix]$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:F1:44:98:E7
          inet addr:192.168.1.100  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:f1ff:fe44:98e7/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:67 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:21856 (21.3 KiB)  TX bytes:3008 (2.9 KiB)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000 Memory:c0214000-c0214fff

but _then_ nothing further happens. no ping, ssh, http, no nothing.
something seems to trap all the incoming packets and hurl them into
oblivion. No, I haven't touched firewalls, or anything like that.

what diagnostic steps can I take?

>One further thing, I found that the cheatcodes affected my wireless
>card's ability to boot. Replacing acpi=off with pci=noacpi fixed a few
>problems that I was having.
>
>  
>
I tried that, but sadly with no joy


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