Re: wifi obtaining IP address
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:59:11 -0700
Paul Scott <waterhorse@ultrasw.com> wrote:
> On 07/06/2010 06:31 PM, Celejar wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 17:41:07 -0700
> > Paul Scott<waterhorse@ultrasw.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Debian sid.
> >>
> >> A little over a week ago my laptop stopped being able to complete a connection. I am using an
> >> Orinoco Silver (Hermes chipset)
> >> The failure is the well-known "unable to obtain IP address." I have used both wicd and
> >> Gnome Network Manager. iwlist and wifi-radar can see the access point. dhclient also fails.
> >>
> >> TIA for any ideas as to how to diagnose and solve this,
> >
> > To diagnose this sort of thing, we need the logs (dmesg, syslog). Low
> > level tools are better than the high level, GUI stuff.
>
> Here are syslog entries from dhclient eth2 and dmegs showing the
> insertion of the PCMCIA card.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
> dmesg:
>
> [ 1624.772201] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: pccard: PCMCIA card
> inserted into slot 1
> [ 1624.772239] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: memory probe
> 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
> [ 1624.809253] pcmcia 1.0: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0
> [ 1625.729461] cfg80211: Using static regulatory domain info
> [ 1625.729481] cfg80211: Regulatory domain: US
> [ 1625.729492] (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain,
> max_eirp)
> [ 1625.729512] (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2700 mBm)
> [ 1625.729530] (5170000 KHz - 5190000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
> [ 1625.729549] (5190000 KHz - 5210000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
> [ 1625.729567] (5210000 KHz - 5230000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
> [ 1625.729584] (5230000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
> [ 1625.729600] (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 3000 mBm)
> [ 1625.730050] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US
> [ 1626.033421] orinoco 0.15 (David Gibson
> <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
> [ 1626.077137] orinoco_cs 0.15 (David Gibson
> <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
> [ 1626.185881] orinoco_cs 1.0: Hardware identity 0001:0001:0004:0000
> [ 1626.185993] orinoco_cs 1.0: Station identity 001f:0001:0006:0010
> [ 1626.186018] orinoco_cs 1.0: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 6.16
> [ 1626.190614] orinoco_cs 1.0: firmware: requesting agere_sta_fw.bin
> [ 1626.866015] orinoco_cs 1.0: Hardware identity 0001:0001:0004:0000
> [ 1626.866155] orinoco_cs 1.0: Station identity 001f:0002:0009:0030
> [ 1626.866176] orinoco_cs 1.0: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 9.48
> [ 1626.866189] orinoco_cs 1.0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
> [ 1626.866203] orinoco_cs 1.0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
> [ 1626.866218] orinoco_cs 1.0: WEP supported, 104-bit key
> [ 1626.866228] orinoco_cs 1.0: WPA-PSK supported
> [ 1627.656203] udev: renamed network interface eth1 to eth2
> [ 1629.008197] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth2: link is not ready
> [ 1629.225289] eth2: New link status: Connected (0001)
> [ 1629.225495] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth2: link becomes ready
> [ 1630.720511] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming
> [ 1635.918066] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming
> [ 1640.216115] eth2: no IPv6 routers present
> [ 1641.125130] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming
> [ 1646.302985] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming
> [ 1651.624297] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming
> [ 1659.181055] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming
> [ 1664.379099] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming
> [ 1669.586645] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming
> [ 1674.783657] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming
> [ 1679.989689] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming
Okay, the card reports that it's connected. What's the output of 'iwconfig eth2'?
Celejar
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