wireless woes

[Charles Malespin]

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


Here is my ifup, ifdown, and /etc/networking/interfaces....  I can send anything else when you guys ask for it.  
Thanks, hope this helps! 

##### This is my ifdown ############
malespin at malespin:~$ sudo ifdown wlan0
Password:
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/wlan0/00:90:4b:cd:e5:d6
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:cd:e5:d6
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on wlan0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
################


#### This is my /etc/networking/interfaces  ##############

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
mapping hotplug
	script grep
	map eth0

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid linksys

auto wlan0


######### tHis is my ifup ##############
malespin at malespin:~$ sudo ifup wlan0
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/wlan0/00:90:4b:cd:e5:d6
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:cd:e5:d6
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.