Wireless Card - Intel Centrino does not work

[Jan Morén]

tor 2004-10-28 klockan 15:48 +0100 skrev Simon Burke:
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:11:42 +0200, Manuel Ohlendorf
> <manuel.ohlendorf at deri.org> wrote:
> > John Hornbeck wrote:
> > 
> > >I have had this problem and the fix for me was to reboot the router.  I
> > >know that sounds odd but some sort of conflict arose and caused it not
> > >to release to the card anymore.  This has been the case with a few
> > >others also.
> > >
> > >
> > Hm... I don't think the problem is the router. I think it is a
> > hardware-problem. I read something in the forum that some bios have an
> > irq bug. But i don't really understand it. Are there any workarounds to
> > fix this problem?
> > 
> AFAIK, linux support for centrino was a bit flaky anyway- well it was
> a couple of months ago at least. Im not usre if this is relevant, but
> i thought id throw in my 2pence

I got the identical problem on quite unrelated hardware. It turned out
that the dhcp server at work was full and didn't give out any more ip
addresses.

>From the printout earlier, it seems the card does get connected, it just
never receives an address. I would consider a problem at the router.


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