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