Chris Kacoroski wrote:
Hi,
I have a dell 5100 with a dell 1150 wireless card. The card worked
under Mandrake, but I cannot get it to work with Debian testing (2.6.7-2
kernel). Iwconfig produces:
eth2 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"Admin-Wireless" Nickname:"HERMES I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457GHz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44
Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:XXXXXXXXXXXX
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/92 Signal level=134/153 Noise level=134/153
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
wavemon shows the card, but i am not connected. I have checked the
password and ESSID with the lan admin and they are correct. Any ideas
on how to troubleshoot this are appreciated. I do not think I need to
recompile the kernel because I can see the card.
It appears that the card is up and running, but you just need to get IP
configured. If you know DHCP is available on the WLAN, try requesting an
IP address using "dhclient eth2". If this works, then all you need to do
is add "eth2" to your /etc/network/interfaces file so next time eth2 comes
up, the ifupdown script will automaticallly run the dhcp client on that
interface.
jc
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Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian Admin and User
