Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???

2008-01-17 Thread Wackojacko
Helge Hafting wrote: There is another problem though. My homemade script uses "iwlist scan" in order to see where the machine is (at home, at work, at friends/family house) and then select the appropriate essid, key and other stuff. Have you tried putting all the various networks into a config

Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???

2008-01-17 Thread Helge Hafting
Kelly Anderson wrote: Thought I'd throw in a suggestion that you look into the iwlwifi driver. Intel has moved on to the next "best thing". The iwl driver doesn't require the stupid daemon (a big step). And my initial impression is that it will probably support WEP/WPA more effectively.

Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???

2008-01-05 Thread C. Ahlstrom
Kelly Anderson 16:38 Fri 04 Jan Thought I'd throw in a suggestion that you look into the iwlwifi driver. Intel has moved on to the next "best thing". The iwl driver doesn't require the stupid daemon (a big step). And my initial impression is that it will probably supp

Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???

2008-01-04 Thread Kelly Anderson
Helge Hafting wrote: Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: Hi, I am running Debian Lenny on a Dell Vostro laptop which has a ipw3945 wifi card. The card is recognised by the software and it even works somehow (I can see all the wifi networks in my building using wifi-radar). But whatever I do I cannot get

Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???

2008-01-04 Thread Helge Hafting
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: Hi, I am running Debian Lenny on a Dell Vostro laptop which has a ipw3945 wifi card. The card is recognised by the software and it even works somehow (I can see all the wifi networks in my building using wifi-radar). But whatever I do I cannot get a (DHCP) ip address

Re: Re: Re: Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???

2007-10-13 Thread robert caterina
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 s

Re: Re: Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???

2007-10-12 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
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

Re: Re: Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???

2007-10-12 Thread robert caterina
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

Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???

2007-10-11 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: Hi, I am running Debian Lenny on a Dell Vostro laptop which has a ipw3945 wifi card. The card is recognised by the software and it even works somehow (I can see all the wifi networks in my building using wifi-radar). But whatever I do I cannot get a (DHCP) ip address

Re: Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???

2007-10-11 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
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

Re: Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???

2007-10-11 Thread robert caterina
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 ge

Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???

2007-10-11 Thread Carlos San Esteban
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 robert caterina wrote: > Hy Joost, > To get an IP adress for your laptop you must specify where it can > find the dhcp server. You must include in the wireless stanza the IP > adress of that server via an instruction: gateway (write the IP of

Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???

2007-10-11 Thread robert caterina
Hy Joost, To get an IP adress for your laptop you must specify where it can find the dhcp server. You must include in the wireless stanza the IP adress of that server via an instruction: gateway (write the IP of the dhcp server behind gateway. Hope this helps! -- robert caterina <[EMAIL

Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???

2007-10-11 Thread Chris Ahlstrom
* Joost Kraaijeveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-10 19:43:48 +0200]: > The card is recognised by the software and it even works somehow (I can > see all the wifi networks in my building using wifi-radar). But whatever > I do I cannot get a (DHCP) ip address from my Zyxel AP which is using a > WE