On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 17:41:07 -0700 Paul Scott <waterho...@ultrasw.com> wrote:
> Debian sid. > > A little over a week ago my laptop stopped being able to complete a > connection. I am using an > Orinoco Silver (Hermes chipset) > The failure is the well-known "unable to obtain IP address." I have used > both wicd and > Gnome Network Manager. iwlist and wifi-radar can see the access point. > dhclient also fails. > > TIA for any ideas as to how to diagnose and solve this, To diagnose this sort of thing, we need the logs (dmesg, syslog). Low level tools are better than the high level, GUI stuff. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100706213141.b4c64a73.cele...@gmail.com
