Hi, I would appreciate some help getting a connection to the wireless network in my house. It is an encrypted network. Here are the results of attempting ifup. I also show the contents of several config files and the results if iwconfig and iwspy. Any help is appreciated.
pool-71-109-151-76:/home/metaperl/tmp/wireless# ifup eth2 Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. All rights reserved. Please contribute if you find this software useful. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 eth1: unknown hardware address type 24 sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 eth1: unknown hardware address type 24 Listening on LPF/eth2/00:02:2d:b2:9f:b0 Sending on LPF/eth2/00:02:2d:b2:9f:b0 Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20 DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database. Exiting. Failed to bring up eth2. pool-71-109-151-76:/home/metaperl/tmp/wireless# cat /etc/network/interfaces # 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 auto eth0 #iface eth0 inet static iface eth0 inet dhcp name Ethernet LAN card iface eth2 inet dhcp name Wireless LAN card wireless_essid not_sure_what_to_set auto eth2 pool-71-109-151-76:/home/metaperl/tmp/wireless# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. eth1 no wireless extensions. eth2 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"not_sure_what_to_set" Nickname:"HERMES I" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44 Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3 Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=0/92 Signal level=134/153 Noise level=134/153 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 sit0 no wireless extensions. pool-71-109-151-76:/home/metaperl/tmp/wireless# ifconfig eth2 eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:B2:9F:B0 inet6 addr: fe80::202:2dff:feb2:9fb0/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:21 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:193 Base address:0x100 pool-71-109-151-76:/home/metaperl/tmp/wireless# -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]