[ltp] Re: Trouble with Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b on R40

Björn Lindström linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:42:55 +0100


Brad Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com>:

> Björn Lindström wrote:
>
>> # iwconfig eth1 mode managed essid dreaming key off
> did you try to mark the card up before setting th essid?
>
> ifconfig eth1 up

That doesn't make any difference.

Here's what I get from dhclient, if that helps:

# ifconfig eth1 up
# iwconfig eth1 mode managed essid dreaming key off
# iwconfig eth1
# dhclient eth1
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html

wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:02:8a:a3:18:fe
Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:02:8a:a3:18:fe
Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database.

Sleeping.