On 8/13/07, Jos van Kan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sam Preston schreef: > > On 8/13/07, Jos van Kan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Sam Preston schreef: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> I just purchased a Toshiba Satellite laptop (A215-S4807), and am > >>> dual-booting Vista and OpenSUSE 10.2. The laptop has an Atheros > >>> AR5007EG wireless NIC. After searching around, I tried installing the > >>> ndiswrapper module and the windows drivers, and 'ndiswrapper -l' > >>> states that everything is okay. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to > >>> get the connection to work. I'm new to setting up a wireless > >>> connetion in linux, so I'm not sure if the driver isn't working > >>> correctly, or if I'm just not setting up the connection correctly. > >>> 'iwconfig' shows wlan0, so I try: > >>> > >>>> iwconfig wlan0 essid "my_network_name" > >>> after which 'iwconfig wlan0' shows signal strength, etc. I then try: > >>> > >>>> ifconfig wlan0 up > >>>> ifup wlan0 > >>> I get a warning that NetworkManager is being notified to set up the > >>> DHCP connection, but I don't seem to actually connect -- I can open up > >>> a browser and I just get a 'page not found' error. What should I be > >>> doing to test this connection? Also, the NetworkManager icon in the > >>> system tray still says that there is a connection to eth0, not wlan0. > >>> > >>> Thanks for any help, > >>> > >>> -Sam > >>> > >> Two questions: > >> 1. Does wlan0 show an IP-address in ifconfig/iwconfig? > > > > No, I'm not getting an IP address. iwconfig gives: > > wlan0: IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"insecure.utah.edu" > > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:0B:0E:26:14:C4 > > Bit Rate=54 Mb/s > > Encryption key:off > > Power Management:off > > Link quality:78/100 Signal level:-46 dBmh Noise level:-96 dBm > > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 > > Tx excessive retries 676 Ivalid misc:8787 Missed beacon: 0 > > > > and ifconfig gives: > > wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:9E:28:79:F2 > > inet6 addr: fe80::21b:9eff:fe28:79f2/64 Scope:Link > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > ... > That's clear then. dhcp hasn't given out an IP address. What do the logs give > you? > > (cat /var/log/messages | grep -i dhcp) >
I just get: Aug 13 08:57:28 samlap network: Starting the DHCP DBUS Deamon: Aug 13 08:57:41 samlap dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2 ... It tries to discover on eth0 several more times, but nothing on interface wlan0 -Sam > > Regards, > -- > Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- -------------------- J. Samuel Preston Research Associate Center for Advanced Engineering Environments Old Dominion University Research Foundation -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
