Leonid Grinberg wrote:
Hello, Following the advice I got in the thread "Debian and Wireless on an IBM Thinkpad), I got myself an Asus wireless LAN card. It uses the rt2500 driver, which I installed (I downloaded the neccecary Debian packages, did everything I was supposed to, and now have the rt2500 module loaded). The laptop is running Debian Testing with kernel 2.6. I am trying to connect over wireless to a Lynksis wireless router. I cannot do it. I have tried adding auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp wireless_essid <MY_ESSID> to /etc/network/interfaces, but it is not working (I am doing ifdown eth0, ifup eth0). Please help!
I would suggest that you first do a few checks on the interface itself:
# iwconfig eth0
This will tell you if the interface is recognized as a wireless one and
if it associates with the correct access point. You can also see how it
reacts to different configuration options such as
# iwconfig eth0 essid ....
I would first try to get everything working without WEP and activate
that later if you want to do so.
# iwlist eth0 scan
This will list all the access points which can be detected and the
signal strengths. Check if you get a good signal from your AP.
If your interface is associated with the correct AP you can try to run
the dhcp client:
# dhclient eth0
Note that there are two versions of the dhcp client package in Debian,
"dhcp-client" and "dhcp3-client". If one fails maybe the other one will
work. Also check if your Linksys router is configured to accept requests
from your wireless card; there might be MAC address based filters, for
example.
Regards,
Florian