Meyer, David R wrote:
>I have messed around with three different distros running 2.6.x (Debian
>3.1, OpenSuSE and Xandros 3). I have the Cisco Aironet Wireless Card.
>I have the same trouble with all three distros:
>
>I can see the access point, but I can't pull an IP address. However, on
>other systems with older kernels (same card) I can connect right away
>with no worries.
>
>Can someone point me in the right direction for the fix?
>
>
Have you updated your DHCP client along with your kernel? I ran into
something recently where ISC's DHCP Client v2.0 wouldn't work with a 2.6
kernel (I needed 3.0).
If you "ifconfig eth0 up" the interface and tcpdump the interface, do
you see traffic? Can you statically assign an IP?
- Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@nks.net> <ian@blenke.com> http://ian.blenke.com/
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