Wireless thinkpad

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[quote:1aaeb9268d="senectus at gmail.com"]
I found this in the /var/log/syslog :
Oct 23 03:47:04 localhost dhclient: sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Oct 23 03:47:04 localhost dhclient: sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Oct 23 03:47:04 localhost dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:20:e0:8d:99:0b
Oct 23 03:47:04 localhost dhclient: Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:20:e0:8d:99:0b
Oct 23 03:47:04 localhost dhclient: Sending on   Socket/fallback
Oct 23 03:47:04 localhost dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP
Client V3.0.1rc14
Oct 23 03:47:04 localhost dhclient: Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
Oct 23 03:47:04 localhost dhclient: All rights reserved.
Oct 23 03:47:04 localhost dhclient: For info, please visit
http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
Oct 23 03:47:04 localhost dhclient:
Oct 23 03:47:04 localhost dhclient: sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Oct 22 19:47:04 localhost kernel: eth0: Error -110 setting multicast list.
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Hmm.  I'd guess drivers, but it's a shot in the dark.  Have you tried [url]http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/linux-wlan-ng[/url]?  More info at http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/.