Hi, I've been using SXDE for a while at work and other locations but once I took it home I couldn't get a dhcp address from the wireless nic. I have had it home before while it was running linux (gentoo) and it worked fine.
It's a Toshiba Tecra M2 with an Intel Pro 2200BG wireless internal card with the iwi driver. I'm now running SXDE 01/08 snv_79a. I'm connecting to a Belkin Pre-N router model number F5D8230-4 with the latest firmware. I'm using 128 bit WEP. Everything works fine when I boot/log into the laptop. I get the popup showing all of the wireless networks in range. I select the correct essid. It then pops up a dialog asking for the WEP key. Enter that...then nothing. Ifconfig shows that the interface is up but has an IP of 0.0.0.0. I check dladm and the secobj exists. I've also tried snooping the interface. Once nwam tries to connect I see the following scrolling under snoop: OLD-BROADCAST -> BROADCAST DHCP/BOOTP DHCPDISCOVER I see that several times and I also see arps from other systems. The other odd thing is that when I check the dhcp client list on the router I see the wireless card's mac address and it shows that an address has been assigned...it just never gets back to solaris. I have tried all of this manually by disabling nwam and using the dladm commands. I get the same response. I can see that I've connected to the router with dladm show-wifi. It shows connected, that it's using wep, the strength is good and it's using the 'g' mode. Doing an ifconfig iwi0 dhcp ends up with a timeout. I've also tried assigning a fixed address and I get nowhere. I've been looking into this for a while but finally have to turn to you all for help. Thanks! This message posted from opensolaris.org
