On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:35:51AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
[snip]
>
> Try the following:
>
> 1) unload and reload the driver module
> 2) check (and post) the iwconfig output
After unloading, reloading and plugging in the network card, my iwconfig
output is:

eth0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"" Nickname:"HERMES I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=0/92 Signal level=134/153 Noise level=134/153
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

> 3) do ifconfig xxxx up; iwconfig xxxx essid nnnnnnnn
After these commands, the iwconfig output is:

eth0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"melange" Nickname:"HERMES I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: None
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=0/92 Signal level=134/153 Noise level=134/153
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Notice that the Bit Rate dropped to 2 Mb/s.

My access point uses wep. So I ran "iwconfig eth0 key s:XXXXXXXX". The
iwconfig output is:


eth0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"melange" Nickname:"HERMES I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX Security modepen
Power Managementff
Link Quality=40/92 Signal level=-54 dBm Noise level=-94 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

I sanitised the output with 0s and Xs.

> 4) repeat step 2 - if the card is associated, you should see "Access Point: nn:nn:nn:nn:nn:nn"

At this point, everything seems normal. Now I try "dhclient eth0" and it times
out without getting an ip address. I don't think this is a hardware problem
since everything works during the debian installer and when I had freebsd
installed.

Any is appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris.


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