On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:42:24 -0700 Paul Scott <waterho...@ultrasw.com> wrote:
> On 07/06/2010 08:28 PM, Celejar wrote: > > 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, > >>> > > > > Okay, the card reports that it's connected. What's the output of 'iwconfig > > eth2'? > > iwconfig: > > eth2 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"bliss" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: None > Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/0 > Retry limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off > Encryption key:off > Power Management:off > Link Quality=80/70 Signal level=-22 dBm Noise level=-92 dBm > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 I can't be sure, since different drivers behave differently, and I have no experience with the Orinoco / Hermes, but generally, this means that the card isn't associated with the AP. When it is, you should see "Acess Point: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx", with the hex digits of the AP's address. We need to figure out why the card isn't associating. Are you using WEP/WPA? > and ifconfig: > > eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2d:1e:db:1f > inet6 addr: fe80::202:2dff:fe1e:db1f/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:1 errors:60 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:16555 (16.1 KiB) > Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100 ifconfig doesn't matter here, since the problem is with the wireless association. 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/20100706235430.080cf1db.cele...@gmail.com
