Re: Re: Re: Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???
good evening Joost, Looking at what packages you've installed, i don't see firmware-ipw3945 which is also available in the debian repository. Hence i don't know if it is essential to have it installed on the system (apparently there is no dependency about it??). Well here i have things to say: in my opinion it may be a problem related to network-manager package. When i installed debian etch from dvds, network-manager package were installed by default by the installer but i never have been able to get a stable connection to the network. No nameserver were caught during the transaction in a reliable manner. In substance, I read on a forum (foresightlinux) that network-manager was not stable and reliable enough to use it in every day work and it was proposed an alternative with dhcp-client. I have give it a try at home and effectively i could connect to internet without problem. (Personaly i prefer to work with statics adresses rather than dynamic IP). At this moment, i have a desktop with debian etch and two laptops with windows vista and xp connecting to the internet through wireless, all without problems at all, via an ethernet box coupled at a router+wifi (Topcom model). If you are ready to make an experiment, you could remove the network-manager package and replace it with the dhcp-client and redo all the configuration to see what happens. As your system does not work, it shall cost you nothing to give it a try. You can always go back doing the reverses operations. cheers -- robert caterina [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???
Hi Rovbert, On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 09:12 +0200, robert caterina wrote: hy Joost, Could you be more explicit about the devices you possess? What kind of devices have you instaled from the inlet of telephone line? An ethernet box combined with a router-wifi or what else? What packages related to networking have you installed on your laptop etc... We need to know these things for understanding right the problem and may be to help you to solve it, if we can. I have a Zyxel wireless AP (ZyAIR B-1000 v.2) in master mode using a WEP key which DHCP's for the wireless network. It connects through a switch to my ADSL modem. It runs fine and all Windows computers that I have (both my girl friend's and my own Dell if running on Windows Vista) get IP addresses and can reacht the internet (just as the rest of my (non-wireless) network). My Dell Vostro 1700 (again which gets to the internet using the wireless described before if running Windows Vista) runs Debian Lenny 2.6.22-2-amd64 SMP (newest version of all available software). It has a Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG wireless network card. I have installed the wireless-tools 29~pre22-1, ipw3945-modules-2.6.22-2-amd64, ipw3945d, wifi-radar 1.9.7-3, libsmbios* 1.13.10-1 and network-manager-(gnome) 0.6.5-1. The card is recognized and I can see all wifi networks in my building if I use wifi-radar, so that does not seem to be the problem. But whatever I do I do not seem to be able to get an IP address from the AP. Not if I use the NetworkManager, or if I use the wifi-radar application I once (1 time) had the network working (very slowly but working) but I cannot reproduce that anymore. If I use tcpdump or wireshark I see the DHCP request leave the machine. I have even seen Wdinows NetBIOS broad cast appear from my wired network on the wifi network card After a while the NetworkManager asks me for a _WEP_ key: I fill in the right one (yes, I really do) but that does not help. All I want is that my wireless works, with OR without the NetworkManager (preferably because I want to use both my wired and my wirelass card at the same time, but I settle for just the wifi card for now) . TIA -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmegen tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 fax: 024-3608416 web: www.askesis.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???
hello, From the message of Joost, in which he says he uses a Zyxel AP (i suppose that it is a router + wifi combined device, perhaps behind a ethernet box from his F.A.I), i deduced that the system (the laptop) needs to have a route to the interface having the dhcp service enabled on it: in general it is at the output of the ethernet box. That one has an IP address of the form 192.168.0.1 and acts as a gateway to connect to the internet. But may be i am wrong. Sorry if it is the case. -- robert caterina [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 19:01 +0200, robert caterina wrote: hello, From the message of Joost, in which he says he uses a Zyxel AP (i suppose that it is a router + wifi combined device, perhaps behind a ethernet box from his F.A.I), i deduced that the system (the laptop) needs to have a route to the interface having the dhcp service enabled on it: in general it is at the output of the ethernet box. That one has an IP address of the form 192.168.0.1 and acts as a gateway to connect to the internet. But may be i am wrong. Sorry if it is the case. The ap itself is dhcp'ing so I do not need another dhcp server. The strange thing is that suddenly it seemed to work (slwly)., but re-doing the thing I have done leads me to nowhere (not even to Ozzy ;-): I cannot get my connection back, whatever I do... I am slowly getting desperate Iand I am thinking of reinstalling Windows on my laptop as I *really* need wifi on it, on whatever way. -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmegen tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 fax: 024-3608416 web: www.askesis.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
