On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:51:18 -0800, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lots of you are using WiFi with Linux. I am too, in certain > locations. (home and The Strand, to name two.) But when it doesn't > work, I have zero clue how to diagnose what's wrong. > > This weekend, I was at a hotel with an open access WiFi network. All > of the Windows users I was with connected to the net more or less > automatically, but I never got my system talking. > > I managed to get Kismet working. Kismet gave me lots of info about > the network, but I wasn't able to translate that into a working > configuration. I spent several hours on it. Very frustrating. (I > have Kismet's packet dumps if anybody wants to see...) I had two WiFi > cards, too, the Intel Pro/Wireless 2100 (aka Centrino) built into the > laptop and an Orinoco (Hermes) card. No joy with either.
Could it have been a DHCP problem rather than a wireless problem? Was the AP made by D-Link (they have a proprietary speedup, that degrades for uncapable windows machines but not for the rest of the world)? -- http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained Do you know what your IT infrastructure does? _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
