Richard Lyons wrote:
I am obviously missing the obvious here. An IBM Thinkpad, sid, orinoco
wifi card talks to the Netgear DG834G router when security is disabled,
but when I turn WEP on it doesn't connect.
/etc/network/interfaces has
iface eth0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid Coigxxxxxxxx
wireless-key xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx
But ifup eth0 gives
etho: New link status: Connected (0001)
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:02:2d:a6:07:bb
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:02:2d:a6:07:bb
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
...more similar...
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database.
Exiting.
Failed to bring up eth0.
Which tells me I left something out. But what?
is dhcp turned on at the router? does it work with a static ip?
A
Help me someone?
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