I can't get wireless to work.  If anyone has a minute or two to check
http://rafb.net/p/AdSGKt28.html, and if any solution  jumps out, I'd love
to hear it.

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edju <edjlb@yahoo.com> writes:

> I can't get wireless to work.  If anyone has a minute or two to check
>http://rafb.net/p/AdSGKt28.html, and if any solution  jumps out, I'd love
>to hear it.

Your wireless works. That is not the problem Your problem is that you are
not connecting to your AP properly. It has encryption enabled. That is
probably where your problem lies. Firstly disable encryption on your
wirelss AP. See if you can connect. Secondly use the correct key.
(On the 2wire systems it is printed on the side of the modem and by default
it is WEP.)

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Horton heard a Who named Unruh saying:
> edju <edjlb@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>
> Your wireless works. That is not the problem Your problem is that you are
> not connecting to your AP properly. It has encryption enabled. That is
> probably where your problem lies. Firstly disable encryption on your
> wirelss AP. See if you can connect. Secondly use the correct key.
> (On the 2wire systems it is printed on the side of the modem and by defaul
t
> it is WEP.)
>

Hear this man, he knows of what he speaks. Plus, try a slower connection
speed rather than 2.x GHz ... have found better Net speeds on lower
wireless connection speeds (cleaner "conversation" between devices).
Afterwords, if you *must*, speed up the "conversation".

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Unruh wrote:

> edju <edjlb@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>
> Your wireless works. That is not the problem Your problem is that you are
> not connecting to your AP properly. It has encryption enabled. That is
> probably where your problem lies. Firstly disable encryption on your
> wirelss AP. See if you can connect. Secondly use the correct key.
> (On the 2wire systems it is printed on the side of the modem and by
> default it is WEP.)

Turned off encryption on the AP and commented it out in network/interfaces.
Still getting "No DHCPOFFERS".  The light on the PC card blinks a few
times and that's it.  I was hoping there was something amiss in the
interfaces file or somewhere.  The same laptop connects in Win2K, and my
son's iphone connects immediately.

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On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:44:12 -0400, edju wrote:
> Unruh wrote:
> 
>
> Turned off encryption on the AP and commented it out in network/interfaces
.
> Still getting "No DHCPOFFERS".  The light on the PC card blinks a few
> times and that's it.  I was hoping there was something amiss in the
> interfaces file or somewhere.  The same laptop connects in Win2K, and my
> son's iphone connects immediately.

How about a few other steps then.  Try looking at the output of iwconfig
and see what the wireless extensions think your essid is.  Without
encryption enabled whatsoever, try doing it on the command line like this:

iwconfig eth1 essid XXXXX key off - the XXX part is the ESSID you have set
on your system.

after you do this, try using iwconfig again and see if your wifi card now
shows it finding the right essid.  If so, try issuing a dhclient command
from the command line and see what happens.  Usually it would be something
like "dhclient eth1".  Or whatever it is for your card's network
interface...

If you get it working okay, try adding back in the more complex stuff like
encryption.  Its easier as unruh says to start out simple and see that
things work and then tighten things up.  You will know that the basic
networking between router and laptop are working.  The wireless-tools
commands are your friends in this endeavor.
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