Thanks in advance for any help.
I am back in Linux for the first time in couple of months. I installed
Ubuntu w/o a floppy, usb key or CD and the install went great. Everything
works but wireless.
System:
Brand/Model- Vpr matrix 220A
Distro- Ubuntu
Kernel- 2.6.12-10-686
Wirelss- pcmcia trendnet TEW-421PC
Note: both the motherboard and the trendnet card are basically Texas
Instruments products with different brands
What has happened so far:
- Without installing any drivers, the card powered on and I received a wlan0
entry under the menu "System" > "Administration" > "Networking". The
networking app would be unresponsive
- I found an open source driver for the card and followed instructions Now
iwconfig shows that I have the right card (b/g) and a few other things. It
does not show an adapter when I pull the card out of the pcmcia slot.
- "ifup wlan0" tries to do something and gives the following output:
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:40:f4:9f:e8:2b
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:40:f4:9f:e8:2b
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 6
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
No DHCPOFFERS received
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping
- I can see that the power light on the card is on, but the transmit/receive
light never comes on (not even during "ifup wlan0"
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Trent
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