On 19 Jan 2006 14:45:12 -0500, Shreyas Ananthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Milan, > > I am using Airport wireless card on an iBook 12" G4 and I have managed > to get bcm43xx driver working both with WEP and WPA, using the default > debian kernel. I downloaded the softmac-snapshot and bcm43xx snapshots > (Jan 15, 2006 snapshots) and compiled the ieee80211 modules from the > softmac-snapshot and use them instead of the ones in the > kernel. Giuseppe has a good summary of the procedure we followed to > get it working at http://www.fisica.unipa.it/~lavaget/ubuntuae/ > > I have found that iwlist scanning isn't very reliable. I sometimes > have to scan a couple of times before setting the essid using iwconfig > or wpa_supplicant.
Try dscape/bcm43xx. It needs only one second to get connected. http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/bcm43xx/branches/dscape/driver/HOWTO?op=file&rev=1027&sc=1 Bin > This brings me to my problem... I cannot get an IP > address using dhclient... > > the procedure I follow is > > modprobe ieee80211_crypt ieee80211 ieee80211_crypt_wep > ieee80211_crypt_ccmp ieee80211_crypt_tkip ieee80211softmac bcm43xx > > ifconfig eth1 up > iwlist eth1 scan > > dhclient eth1 > > When I run dhclient it seems to do an ifconfig eth1 down followed by > an ifconfig eth1 up, which means that the iwlist scan results are lost > and dhclient keeps searching for the dhcp server. > > > I found that if I let dhclient run on one console and run iwlist eth1 > scan in another console then the dhclient immediately is able to get > an IP address. So my question is... is there any option that I can > pass to dhclient that will disable the up/down of interface if it is > already up? Can someone please help? > > Shreyas. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >