RE: PCMCIA wireless help needed
I noticed the results of the iwconfig do not have an Essid set? It also
states encryption is off. It appears your wireless card is not
connecting to the wireless network, and therefore it won't get a dhcp
offer since it is technically not on the network.
Having been along time since I worked with iwfonfig, I would suggest
looking at either using it to set the config for your wireless card, or
find the config file for that card and set the essid and encryption
information needed to connectto your access point.
Good luck, and I hope none of this was way off base.
-----Original Message-----
From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Terrence Brannon
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 2:46 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: PCMCIA wireless help needed
Hi, I would appreciate some help getting a connection to the wireless
network in my house. It is an encrypted network. Here are the results
of attempting ifup. I also show the contents of several config files
and the results if iwconfig and iwspy. Any help is appreciated.
pool-71-109-151-76:/home/metaperl/tmp/wireless# ifup eth2
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
eth1: unknown hardware address type 24
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
eth1: unknown hardware address type 24
Listening on LPF/eth2/00:02:2d:b2:9f:b0
Sending on LPF/eth2/00:02:2d:b2:9f:b0
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database.
Exiting.
Failed to bring up eth2.
pool-71-109-151-76:/home/metaperl/tmp/wireless# cat
/etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet static
iface eth0 inet dhcp
name Ethernet LAN card
iface eth2 inet dhcp
name Wireless LAN card
wireless_essid not_sure_what_to_set
auto eth2
pool-71-109-151-76:/home/metaperl/tmp/wireless# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.
eth2 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"not_sure_what_to_set" Nickname:"HERMES
I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point:
44:44:44:44:44:44
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
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
sit0 no wireless extensions.
pool-71-109-151-76:/home/metaperl/tmp/wireless# ifconfig eth2
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:B2:9F:B0
inet6 addr: fe80::202:2dff:feb2:9fb0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:21 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:193 Base address:0x100
pool-71-109-151-76:/home/metaperl/tmp/wireless#
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