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Re: wifi obtaining IP address



On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 11:54:30PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:42:24 -0700
> Paul Scott <waterhorse@ultrasw.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 07/06/2010 08:28 PM, Celejar wrote:
> > > On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:59:11 -0700
> > > Paul Scott<waterhorse@ultrasw.com>  wrote:
> > >
> > > 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
> 
> I can't be sure, since different drivers behave differently, and I have
> no experience with the Orinoco / Hermes, but generally, this means that
> the card isn't associated with the AP.  When it is, you should see
> "Acess Point: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx", with the hex digits of the AP's
> address.
> 
> We need to figure out why the card isn't associating.  Are you using
> WEP/WPA?

Not at this point.  (That's another story)

> > 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
> 
> ifconfig doesn't matter here, since the problem is with the wireless
> association.

It will when we get an IP address.  Any idea why we get an IPv6 address?

Thanks,

Paul



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