Re: wifi obtaining IP address

[Paul Scott <waterhorse@ultrasw.com>]

On 07/06/2010 08:28 PM, Celejar wrote:
> 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,
>
> Okay, the card reports that it's connected.  What's the output of 'iwconfig eth2'?

iwconfig:

eth2      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"bliss"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.457 GHz  Access Point: None
          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Sensitivity:1/0
          Retry limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=80/70  Signal level=-22 dBm  Noise level=-92 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

and ifconfig:

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:2d:1e:db:1f
          inet6 addr: fe80::202:2dff:fe1e:db1f/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1 errors:60 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:16555 (16.1 KiB)
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

Thanks,

Paul