Problems with WLAN on ubuntu 7.10

[Jens Strohschnitter]

> > 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
> >
> >
> > My notebook is a DELL Laptitude D620. So I think the problem is, that I can't get an ip-address via dhcp (shown
> > as above in the messages).
> >
> > So I hope someone can help me to fix my problem and makes me connecting the world ;-)
>
> Hi!
> 
> What is the output of sudo iwlist eth1 scan ?
> 

# iwlist eth1 scan
interface eth1 is not scanable!

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