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strider1551

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From: Northfield, OH

Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 2

Help solving a wireless problem

Hey all,

I have a wireless problem I can't figure out.  The card is installed and works perfectly fine at my house, but I can't get an ip address from school.  Here's what I know:

# iwlist scan
(relevant lines)
ESSID:"handi"
Encryption key:off
Quality=72/100
# ifconfig eth2 up
# iwconfig eth2 essid "handi"
# dhclient eth2
(after several attempts)
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping

I know my card works because it does at home.  I know the network works because other people use it.  My guess is that something needs to be configured differently, but what?

junglepeanut

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From: California

Registered: 2007-01-24

Posts: 145

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Re: Help solving a wireless problem

Have you tried with dhcpcd? It seems to work better in my opinion than dhclient.

My school gave me that error once a day when I tried to connect. Now with dhcpcd no errors. This was even if I was trying to cennect directly instead of wirelessly.

Otherwise check the modes are correct etc.

strider1551

Member

From: Northfield, OH

Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 2

Re: Help solving a wireless problem

Have you tried with dhcpcd? It seems to work better in my opinion than dhclient.

Good to know.  Unfortunately it just sat there and then gave up.

Otherwise check the modes are correct etc.

Alright.  I don't know anything about modes.  The scan said my network was in master mode, so I switched my wireless card to that and still nothing.  Here's the full output, since I get the feeling I don't know enough to know what's relevant:

# iwlist scan eth2
Address: 00:14:6A:C5:11:F0
ESSID: "handi"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:4
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1Mb/s... (lots intermediate speeds)... 54Mb/s
Quality=72/100 Singal level=-75dBm Noise Level=-73dBm
Extra: Last Beacon: 328ms ago

# iwconfig eth2
IEEE 802b/g   ESSID:"handi"   Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
Mode:Master  Frequency=2.484 GHz   Access Point: Invalid
Bit Rate=1Mb/s   Tx-Power=18dBm
RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=0/100  Signal level=-256 dBm   Noise level=-256dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0   Rx invalid crypt:0   Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0    Invalid misc:0    Missed beacon:0

# dhcpcd -d eth2
dhcpcd: MAC address = 00:11:50:67:a6:94

Last edited by strider1551 (2007-03-23 17:43:53)