On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:59:11 -0700 Paul Scott <waterho...@ultrasw.com> wrote:
> On 07/06/2010 06:31 PM, Celejar wrote: > > 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. > > Here are syslog entries from dhclient eth2 and dmegs showing the > insertion of the PCMCIA card. > > Thanks, > > Paul > > dmesg: > > [ 1624.772201] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: pccard: PCMCIA card > inserted into slot 1 > [ 1624.772239] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: memory probe > 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. > [ 1624.809253] pcmcia 1.0: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0 > [ 1625.729461] cfg80211: Using static regulatory domain info > [ 1625.729481] cfg80211: Regulatory domain: US > [ 1625.729492] (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, > max_eirp) > [ 1625.729512] (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2700 mBm) > [ 1625.729530] (5170000 KHz - 5190000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm) > [ 1625.729549] (5190000 KHz - 5210000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm) > [ 1625.729567] (5210000 KHz - 5230000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm) > [ 1625.729584] (5230000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm) > [ 1625.729600] (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 3000 mBm) > [ 1625.730050] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US > [ 1626.033421] orinoco 0.15 (David Gibson > <her...@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <pro...@gnu.org>, et al) > [ 1626.077137] orinoco_cs 0.15 (David Gibson > <her...@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <pro...@gnu.org>, et al) > [ 1626.185881] orinoco_cs 1.0: Hardware identity 0001:0001:0004:0000 > [ 1626.185993] orinoco_cs 1.0: Station identity 001f:0001:0006:0010 > [ 1626.186018] orinoco_cs 1.0: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 6.16 > [ 1626.190614] orinoco_cs 1.0: firmware: requesting agere_sta_fw.bin > [ 1626.866015] orinoco_cs 1.0: Hardware identity 0001:0001:0004:0000 > [ 1626.866155] orinoco_cs 1.0: Station identity 001f:0002:0009:0030 > [ 1626.866176] orinoco_cs 1.0: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 9.48 > [ 1626.866189] orinoco_cs 1.0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported > [ 1626.866203] orinoco_cs 1.0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported > [ 1626.866218] orinoco_cs 1.0: WEP supported, 104-bit key > [ 1626.866228] orinoco_cs 1.0: WPA-PSK supported > [ 1627.656203] udev: renamed network interface eth1 to eth2 > [ 1629.008197] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth2: link is not ready > [ 1629.225289] eth2: New link status: Connected (0001) > [ 1629.225495] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth2: link becomes ready > [ 1630.720511] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming > [ 1635.918066] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming > [ 1640.216115] eth2: no IPv6 routers present > [ 1641.125130] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming > [ 1646.302985] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming > [ 1651.624297] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming > [ 1659.181055] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming > [ 1664.379099] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming > [ 1669.586645] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming > [ 1674.783657] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming > [ 1679.989689] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming Okay, the card reports that it's connected. What's the output of 'iwconfig eth2'? 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/20100706232841.edab9b37.cele...@gmail.com
