MB wrote:
Chris Kacoroski wrote:
Jeff Coppock wrote:
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
I have tried ifconfig and dhcclient with no luck. They seem to not
see the network.
ski
Jeff,
Looks like the card is not connecting to the access point. Have you
been successful conecting to ANY access point? If you are in Davis,
you can head to just about any coffee shop and try:
iwconfig eth2 essid any <-- Or find out the network name, and
capitalization matters.
iwconfig eth2 key off
dhclient eth2
And things should just "work"
Mark
Mark
Thanks for all the comments. I finally got to the library which
has an open system. Still no luck so it must be the card or OS.
I put mandrake 10 on an open partition and will try it tomorrow.
If that doesn't work the next step will be to load on windows.
if that doesn't work then I know it is the card.
What I do not understand is why the card would show up, but it will not
connect.
ski
