Re: Help with Dell 1150 wireless card in Dell 5100

[Chris Kacoroski <kacoroski@comcast.net>]

Jeff Coppock wrote:
> Chris Kacoroski wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a dell 5100 with a dell 1150 wireless card.  The card worked 
> > under Mandrake, but I cannot get it to work with Debian testing 
> > (2.6.7-2 kernel). Iwconfig produces:
> >
> > eth2      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"Admin-Wireless"  Nickname:"HERMES I"
> >           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.457GHz  Access Point: 
> > 44:44:44:44:44:44
> >           Bit Rate:2Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3
> >           Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
> >           Encryption key:XXXXXXXXXXXX
> >           Power Management:off
> >           Link Quality=0/92  Signal level=134/153  Noise level=134/153
> >           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
> >           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> >
> > wavemon shows the card, but i am not connected.  I have checked the 
> > password and ESSID with the lan admin and they are correct.  Any ideas 
> > on how to troubleshoot this are appreciated.  I do not think I need to 
> > recompile the kernel because I can see the card.
>
>
> It appears that the card is up and running, but you just need to get IP 
> configured.  If you know DHCP is available on the WLAN, try requesting 
> an IP address using "dhclient eth2".  If this works, then all you need 
> to do is add "eth2" to your /etc/network/interfaces file so next time 
> eth2 comes up, the ifupdown script will automaticallly run the dhcp 
> client on that interface.
>
> jc

I have tried ifconfig and dhcclient with no luck.  They seem to not see 
the network.

ski