Problems with WLAN on ubuntu 7.10

[SILVA Luis]

On Tuesday, 18 de December de 2007 11:42, Jens Strohschnitter wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm back from SuSE to ubuntu 7.10. But have a problem with connecting
> my internet via wlan. Anything works fine, and drivers/devices are
> recognized but I can't connect to the internet, because my notebook has no
> ip via dhcpd.
>
> Here are some informations about my systemenvironment:
>
> # uname -a
> 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> # lspci
> 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI
> (rev 01)
>
> # iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
>
> eth1      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"Broadcom 4311"
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.472 GHz  Access Point: Invalid
>           Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=18 dBm
>           RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>           Encryption key:off
>           Link Quality=0/100  Signal level=-256 dBm  Noise level=-256 dBm
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
>
> # /etc/network/intercaes
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> # ifconfig
> eth1      Protokoll:Ethernet  Hardware Adresse 00:19:7E:53:7A:08
>           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:20 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:208 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:8736 (8.5 KB)
>           Interrupt:17
>
>
> # /var/log/messages
> dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found under
> /com/redhat/dhcp/eth1 for sub-path eth1.dbus.get.reason

Interesting! Looks like you are not running dbus.
Try:

sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart

and try to connect again.
Good luck,

Luís