Thinkpad T20 wireless troubles - revisited
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 Chris Brotherton wrote:
> I just recent got an old T20 and I am attempting to use Debian on it.
> I am using a PCMCIA orinoco wireless card. Here is the crazy part.
> The card is recognized by the installer. The installer asks me for my
> essid and my WEP key. After I input the information, the wireless
> card get its ip address over dhcp and then works flawlessly. The
> trouble comes when I finish the install and boot the machine. Once
> the machine comes up, I cannot get the wireless card to work.
> iwconfig shows that it has all of the correct information, but it
> cannot get an ip address. I have tried both 4.0r1 and a testing
> snapshot. Both have the exact same problem.
>
> Can anyone help?
I just recent got a Thinkpad T30, and now I'm having the same problem,
after installing Lenny on it, using a netinstall cd.
During bootup I noticed these messages, and there are comparatively
long pauses between them:
DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
Done.
During other bootups, those interval numbers vary.
Personally I have no idea what to make out of this, but could it shed
some light on it for others?
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