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I have an Inspiron 1525 with a broadcom 4315 wifi card, using the proprietary wl driver. I can connect to my local wifi network, complete with wicd showing 80%+ reception most of the time, as well as gain a dhcp name from the router, but thereafter I cannot actually transfer any data from the net, e.g. pidigin can never log in, all my website time out, and ping claims it cannot find host names of remote sites. However, on the very same machine, I can connect upon re-booting into Vista, which has absolutely no problems.
my iwconfig, identical when using netcfg2 and wicd
eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"gold" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:14:C1:2B:C2:41
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Managementmode:All packets received
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=-51 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:0pertinent information from message.log
Sep 30 19:47:39 localhost dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth1/00:1f:e1:67:ae:51
Sep 30 19:47:39 localhost dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth1/00:1f:e1:67:ae:51
Sep 30 19:47:39 localhost dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback
Sep 30 19:47:40 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
Sep 30 19:47:40 localhost dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.2.1
Sep 30 19:47:40 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Sep 30 19:47:40 localhost dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.2.1
Sep 30 19:47:40 localhost dhclient: bound to 192.168.2.35 -- renewal in 138321 seconds.Offline
Cannot find host names = DNS issue
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Could you elaborate on what I should then do?
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I'm not sure. DHCP should be giving your DNS info. Could your post your netcfg profile?
It might have something to do with a bug a recent update introduced.
James
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I usually use wicd. Here's the pertinent part of wireless-settings.conf:
[00:14:C1:2B:C2:41]
afterscript = None
bssid = 00:14:C1:2B:C2:41
ip = None
quality = 100
gateway = None
use_global_dns = 1
strength = -55
disconnect = None
encryption = False
beforescript = None
hidden = False
channel = 6
mode = Managed
has_profile = True
netmask = None
enctype = None
dns3 = None
dns2 = 208.67.222.220
dns1 = 208.67.222.222
use_settings_globally = 1
use_static_dns = 1
essid = gold
automatic = True
[essid:gold]
afterscript = None
bssid = 00:14:C1:2B:C2:41
ip = None
quality = 100
gateway = None
use_global_dns = 1
strength = -55
disconnect = None
encryption = False
beforescript = None
hidden = False
channel = 6
mode = Managed
has_profile = True
netmask = None
enctype = None
dns3 = None
dns2 = 208.67.222.220
dns1 = 208.67.222.222
use_settings_globally = 1
use_static_dns = 1
essid = canon
automatic = TrueAs you see, I've tried to use OpenDNS, which seems to make no difference. I've also put those two dns addresses into resolv.conf and added -R to /etc/conf.d/dhcpcd, which results in a time out on interface eth1 (my wireless card) and the following when I run /etc/rc.d/network start:
warn, eth1: using IPV4LL address 169.254.128.135(this latter address varies).
The pertinent part of my rc.conf:
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
# - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
# - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
#
# DHCP: Set your interface to "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
# Wireless: See network profiles below
#
lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="dhcp"
eth1="dhcp"
wlan_wlan0="eth1 essid gold"
INTERFACES=(!eth0 eth1)
# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
# - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
#
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)
# Enable these network profiles at boot-up. These are only useful
# if you happen to need multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
# - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
# - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
#
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
#
# This now requires the netcfg package
#
#NETWORKS=(homewireless)I haven't been able to work with netcfg profiles.
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