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Sigi

Member

From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

IPW2200 works but I can't get a dhcp-offer

I recently upgraded my whole system using pacman and the testing-repo, switched to a 2.6.13-kernel (I used ABS and configured one using mostly the archck-stuff), solved some weird udev-issues (using the "usb-handoff" option) and thought that everything is fine. I could even get fglrx to work.
As my next step I decided to compile ieee80211 and the IPW2200-driver.
Everything works perfectly now, iwconfig says:

lo        no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 18
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 17.
Some things may be broken...

eth1      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"home" 
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: 00:C0:49:5A:B9:7E   
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=100/100  Signal level=-18 dBm  Noise level=-86 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:3   Missed beacon:0

It even detects my AP!
But when I try to get an IP from my router, dhcpcd and dhcpclient fail.

Some Ideas?

Greets Sigi

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mmccaskill

Member

From: NC

Registered: 2005-02-21

Posts: 163

Re: IPW2200 works but I can't get a dhcp-offer

You could first try to connect without DHCP and see what happens. You might also want to use ABS and compile the latest wireless_tools package.