Hi Milan, I am using Airport wireless card on an iBook 12" G4 and I have managed to get bcm43xx driver working both with WEP and WPA, using the default debian kernel. I downloaded the softmac-snapshot and bcm43xx snapshots (Jan 15, 2006 snapshots) and compiled the ieee80211 modules from the softmac-snapshot and use them instead of the ones in the kernel. Giuseppe has a good summary of the procedure we followed to get it working at http://www.fisica.unipa.it/~lavaget/ubuntuae/
I have found that iwlist scanning isn't very reliable. I sometimes have to scan a couple of times before setting the essid using iwconfig or wpa_supplicant. This brings me to my problem... I cannot get an IP address using dhclient... the procedure I follow is modprobe ieee80211_crypt ieee80211 ieee80211_crypt_wep ieee80211_crypt_ccmp ieee80211_crypt_tkip ieee80211softmac bcm43xx ifconfig eth1 up iwlist eth1 scan dhclient eth1 When I run dhclient it seems to do an ifconfig eth1 down followed by an ifconfig eth1 up, which means that the iwlist scan results are lost and dhclient keeps searching for the dhcp server. I found that if I let dhclient run on one console and run iwlist eth1 scan in another console then the dhclient immediately is able to get an IP address. So my question is... is there any option that I can pass to dhclient that will disable the up/down of interface if it is already up? Can someone please help? Shreyas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
