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

Björn Lindström linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:56:58 +0100


Alejandro Bonilla <abonilla@linuxwireless.org>:

> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 12:14 +0100, Björn Lindström wrote:
>
>> I'm having some trouble getting this card
>> (http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Cisco_Aironet_Wireless_802.11b) to work
>> with Debian on my ThinkPad R40.
>
> Did you try using the wifi0 instead of the eth1?
>
> iwconfig wifi0 essid dreaming
> ifconfig wifi0 up?
> ifconfig eth1 up?
>
> That driver is crazy.

Using wifi0 instead of eth1 givest the same results, except that
dhclient says:

Listening on LPF/wifi0/<null>
Sending on LPF/wifi0/<null>

That is, the MAC of the card gets replaced by <null>.