On Sunday 12 November 2006 12:17 am, juanjavier wrote: > >Did you set the ESSID with iwconfig? > > Hi, Florian! Yes, I did. I typed iwconfig wlan0 essid "Juanja". Doesn't get > an ip. > > >The output of "iwlist wlan0 scan" > >in your first message showed that your access point hides its ESSID. > > Yes, it does. `Invalid' is the right word. > > >I > >think this means that it will only accept connections from clients which > >know the secret ESSID before they connect. > > Yes, it seems so. I do `iwconfig wlan0 essid "Juanja" and then > `dhclient wlan0'. The subject message appears :-( > > >Also, check the output of "iwconfig wlan0": Is the ESSID set correctly, > >does it display the MAC address of the right access point? > > debian:~# iwconfig wlan0 > wlan0 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4310" > Mode:Managed Frequency=2.484 Ghz Access Point: Invalid > Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=19 dBm > RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off > Encryption key:off > Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalidmisc:0 Missed beacon:0 > > >If the above is all OK then it might be a problem with dhclient. There > >are two DHCP client packages in Debian, "dhcp-client" and > >"dhcp3-client". Make sure to try it with both of them. > > I apt-get installed dhcp3-client. How do I invoke it? > > >-- > >Regards, > > Florian > > Cheers and thanks for helping, > > Junjavier The easier and far less troublesome method for broadcom 43xx is to use ndiswrapper.
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