Mike Leone on 3 Aug 2006 21:58:35 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Kubuntu and a Belkin 54g wireless card with an Atheros chipset


On Thursday 03 August 2006 17:50, K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
> On 8/3/06, Mike Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com> wrote:
>
> [KSB] <...snip...
>
> > iwconfig:
> > lo        no wireless extensions.
> >
> > eth0      no wireless extensions.
> >
> > ath0      IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"mike-leone-54g"
> >           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.442 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
> >           Bit Rate:1 Mb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
> >           Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
> >           Power Management:off
> >           Link Quality=0/94  Signal level=-95 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
> >           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
> >           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
> [KSB] What happens when you try "sudo dhclient ath0"?

Not much ....

turgon@mjl-2650-laptop:~$ dpkg -l | grep restrict
ii  linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-23-386 2.6.15.11-1
ii  linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-23-686 2.6.15.11-1
ii  linux-restricted-modules-386           2.6.15.22
ii  linux-restricted-modules-common        2.6.15.11-1

turgon@mjl-2650-laptop:~$ sudo dhclient ath0
Password:
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

Listening on LPF/ath0/00:11:50:70:ec:fd
Sending on   LPF/ath0/00:11:50:70:ec:fd
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

I know the DHCP is working; I get an IP with the wired interface. And the card 
is fine; if I boot into Windows, I have no problems ...
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