Hello Debian experts, I have sarge installed on a dell inspiron 5000 and everything works (I think), but i have one problem trying to get the pcmcia netgear wireless card to work on the first attempt. it works and works fine just not on the first/second/third attempt. i have to go through the following commands a number of times before i get a valid IP (192.168.2.6 in all successful cases). if the process fails then i get even 192.168.1.102 (i dont know where this is coming from - maybe neighbor?) and 127.0.0.1 (does nothing i guess). the commands i cycle thru
iwconfig eth0 essid test mode managed key on enc 11111111111111111111111111 ifup eth0 (this sometimes says eth0 is already configured and quits) ifconfig (did it work) if no: ifconfig eth0 del 192.168.1.102 rinse and repeat. I was wondering what i am missing to get this to work in the first attempt? it does eventually works after mostly the third attempt but never the 1st. any help that you can provide would be most helpful. i guess the 2nd part of my question is if I could automate this anyway. i use icewm and fspanel so dont use kwifimanager or something similar. any other tool i can use without compiling it? thanks Ganeshram Iyer 2703 West Royal Ln Apt 906 Irving, TX, 75063
