Hi,
I have an amd 64 bit (Turion) HP laptop which has a broadcom bcm4310
wireless card. The following is the lspci output:
30:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 UART (rev 01)
I use Debian etch (amd64) with all the updates installed. The kernel
which I use is given below:
Linux stylesen.home 2.6.18-4-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 11:36:53 CEST
2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I configured the wireless with the help of ndiswrapper with the driver
obtained from ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33001-33500/sp33008.exe
Everything went fine and my wireless card is getting detected. I use a
Linksys wireless router WRT54G. In my office I use the same wireless
router and the same configuration. There with the help of the key it
works fine. But at the same time in home when I use the same
configuration with the wireless router with the corresponding key, am
unable to get the dhcp offers.
The following is the output of my iwlist scan:
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wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:1A:70:4C:8D:B3
ESSID:"nammaveedu"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality:96/100 Signal level:-34 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
Cell 02 - Address: 00:16:B6:CE:42:F0
ESSID:"linksys"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:20/100 Signal level:-83 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
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The following is the output when I do an ifup:
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stylesen@stylesen:~$ sudo ifup wlan0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:14:a5:de:d1:91
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:14:a5:de:d1:91
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
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The following is my /etc/network/interfaces file:
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# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid nammaveedu
wireless-key <--secret-128bit--hex---key-->
auto wlan0
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Could anyone help me in trouble shooting this issue. If you need any
other information am ready to provide. Is there anything I need to
check in the wireless router, because all the windoze clients of my
roommates are getting an ip with ease :(
PS: Bear with me for such a long mail.
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Senthil Kumaran S
http://www.stylesen.org
