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do you see anything like 'HAL status 13' If so you need a newer version
of the madwifi driver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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