I have an Intel 4965 WiFi in my Debian testing laptop. I can connect to the Internet via the sequence of commands
# ifconfig wlan0 up # iwconfig wlan0 essid myessid # iwconfig wlan0 key mykey # iwconfig # dhclient wlan0 which gives the following output in the terminal Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.0 Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:1d:e0:84:ca:e9 Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:1d:e0:84:ca:e9 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.2.1 bound to 192.168.2.3 -- renewal in 936354735 seconds. However, when I issue #ifup wlan0 I get Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.0 Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:1d:e0:84:ca:e9 Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:1d:e0:84:ca:e9 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. and no connection is established. In my /etc/network/interfaces file, I have included the entries iface wlan0 inet dhcp wireless-essid myessid wireless-key mykey Any suggestion? Dimitris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
