That was exactly the problem, and it now works like it should. Thanks! Michael
On Sunday 02 May 2004 09:34 pm, Jason Tower wrote: > if you use drakconf to configure networking, you'll see a checkbox for > "network hotplugging" which is tied to the ifplugd daemon. try > disabling that, it looks like ifplugd might be getting in the way. > > jason > > On Sunday 02 May 2004 19:51, Michael Hrivnak wrote: > > Dell Inspiron 5000 > > Mandrake 10.0 > > Lucent Orinoco Silver PCMCIA card (made by Agere according to FCC ID) > > > > Everything worked great wih Mandrake 9.2 > > > > After upgrading to 10.0 and the 2.6 kernel, the wireless no longer > > works. This happens in /var/log/messages > > > > ----------- > > > > May 2 19:20:19 laptop ifplugd(eth1)[8190]: Using interface > > eth1/00:02:2D:40:11:CF > > May 2 19:20:19 laptop ifplugd(eth1)[8190]: Using detection mode: > > wireless extension > > May 2 19:20:19 laptop ifplugd(eth1)[8190]: Initialization complete, > > link beat not detected. > > May 2 19:20:19 laptop kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected > > (0001) May 2 19:20:20 laptop ifplugd(eth1)[8190]: Link beat > > detected. May 2 19:20:21 laptop ifplugd(eth1)[8190]: Executing > > '/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.action eth1 up'. > > May 2 19:20:21 laptop ifplugd(eth1)[8190]: client: Determining IP > > information for eth1... failed; no link present. Check cable? > > May 2 19:20:21 laptop ifplugd(eth1)[8190]: Program execution failed, > > return value is 1. > > May 2 19:20:21 laptop ifplugd(eth1)[8190]: Exiting. > > May 2 19:20:21 laptop kernel: eth1: New link status: Disconnected > > (0002) > > > > ------------- > > > > > > I've confirmed that the card still works in knoppix. I tried the > > mandrake module, then I patched it with > > orinoco-0.13e-rfmon-dragorn3.diff available at > > http://www.kismetwireless.net/download.shtml. Neither works. There > > are two wireless APs well within range of the laptop. Any thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > Michael -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
