Wireless laptop configuration problem
kleeman
ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Tue Aug 2 02:06:57 UTC 2005
OK superficially it looks like the driver is working OK but that you are
unable for some reason to get an ip address from your router (the
dhclient command does that). A few followup questions and some
suggestions:
If you do
dmesg | more (check the whole log!)
do you see anything like 'HAL status 13' If so you need a newer version
of the madwifi driver
If you move your laptop right next to the router does the
sudo dhclient ath0
command give any different results?
Is vSystems your routers essid? and is the frequency 2.437Ghz correct?
Is your router in mode managed?
What does
sudo iwlist ath0 scanning
give? This command scans for wireless access points near you
It may be that the wired nic is interfering with the ath0 still. To
make sure it isn't check in /etc/network/interfaces and comment out
(temporarily) lines like
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
i.e. anything involving eth0
(do this by putting a # in front of the line)
Reboot and check the set of commands I gave in the previous post.
--
kleeman
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