wireless woes

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 01:26:26PM -0500, Charles Malespin wrote:
> but not recieve them.  So I have tried to do sudo ifdown wlan0 and ifup
> wlan0, but nothing happens.  I have tried sudo /etc/init.d/networking
> restart, and that does nothing.

Do you get any error messages when you do the ifdown/ifup,
the /etc/init.d/networking restart, and so forth? You must
get *something*, right? Normally when ifup returns nothing
at all, that means that you have a static IP address stored
in /etc/network/interfaces. So: could you send along the
contents of your /etc/network/interfaces?

If you have DHCP set up in /etc/network/interfaces, you
should get a few lines that look like so:

Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0e:35:52:bf:b4
Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:0e:35:52:bf:b4
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
bound to 192.168.1.107 -- renewal in 38864 seconds.

Please send along some error messages; we'll be able to help
you better then.

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Stephen R. Laniel
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