Wireless card finds MAC, no DHCP

**wmburke** · 10-29-2004, 09:37 PM

of the Access Point that is.

I just installed Suse Linux 9.1 Personal and it's great!! However, no wireless card access:

even stranger, I didn't try to configure it initially, but it found the access point, established a connection, and obtained an IP lease. However, I couldn't get to the internet, only to the AP. If I boot the same machine into W2k, everything's fine, if I work through eth0, everything's fine (incidentally, eth0 accesses the same AP through a bridge).

So, in trying to figure this out, I assigned an IP address and a gateway through YAST2, and consequently have lost everything.

Now, when I iwconfig wlan0, I get:

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wlan0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID&#58;"."
          Mode&#58;Managed  Frequency&#58;2.437GHz  Access Point&#58; 00&#58;80&#58;C8&#58;19&#58;4A&#58;15
          Bit Rate&#58;2Mb/s   Tx-Power&#58;2346 dBm
          Retry min limit&#58;8   RTS thr&#58;off   Fragment thr&#58;off
          Encryption key&#58;off
          Link Quality&#58;52/92  Signal level&#58;-58 dBm  Noise level&#58;-97 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid&#58;0  Rx invalid crypt&#58;0  Rx invalid frag&#58;0
          Tx excessive retries&#58;0  Invalid misc&#58;0   Missed beacon&#58;

The essid and AP MAC address are correct.

When I ifconfig wlan0 after setting an ip address and gateway, I get:

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wlan0     Link encap&#58;Ethernet  HWaddr 00&#58;06&#58;25&#58;17&#58;53&#58;D3
          inet addr&#58;192.168.0.115  Bcast&#58;192.168.0.255  Mask&#58;255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr&#58; fe80&#58;&#58;206&#58;25ff&#58;fe17&#58;53d3/64 Scope&#58;Link
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU&#58;1500  Metric&#58;1
          RX packets&#58;8926 errors&#58;0 dropped&#58;0 overruns&#58;0 frame&#58;0
          TX packets&#58;308 errors&#58;0 dropped&#58;1 overruns&#58;0 carrier&#58;0
          collisions&#58;0 txqueuelen&#58;1000
          RX bytes&#58;2776375 &#40;2.6 Mb&#41;  TX bytes&#58;154948 &#40;151.3 Kb&#41;
          Interrupt&#58;3 Base address&#58;0x100

This is the ip address I assigned and the MTU set at the AP.

A route turns up:

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Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 wlan0
loopback        *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
default         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 wlan0

and honestly, I'm not sure what it all means, but it seems to be similar to the table when I have eth0 turned on.

Pinging 192.168.0.1 (AP) returns: Destination Host Unreachable.

What do you make of that??? It looks like everything is right, but clearly something isn't. Any suggestions?

Also, I switch from eth0 to wlan0 using:

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