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. I

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 ???

2008-01-05 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

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: 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

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

2007-10-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 08:48:39AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 12:14:04PM +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: I still cannot wifi with my laptop but I can see that the laptop is sending it's DHCP requests to the network, I can see the request being answered by

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

2007-10-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 12:14:04PM +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: I still cannot wifi with my laptop but I can see that the laptop is sending it's DHCP requests to the network, I can see the request being answered by the server but somehow/somewhere the the response gets lost. If I try to

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

2007-10-13 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
I still cannot wifi with my laptop but I can see that the laptop is sending it's DHCP requests to the network, I can see the request being answered by the server but somehow/somewhere the the response gets lost. If I try to make a connection through the NetworkManager I see (using tcpdump) the

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 WEP key

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

2007-10-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 05:29:30AM -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: * 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

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

2007-10-11 Thread Michael Shuler
On 10/11/2007 10:11 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I've been watching for some action on this thread as I have the same chip giving me fits. It appears that I have to use the built-in keys to turn the radio off and then back on to get it to actually wake up and connect. Its been a little

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

2007-10-11 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 10:37 -0500, Michael Shuler wrote: On 10/11/2007 10:11 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I've been watching for some action on this thread as I have the same chip giving me fits. It appears that I have to use the built-in keys to turn the radio off and then back on to

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

2007-10-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:37:15AM -0500, Michael Shuler wrote: On 10/11/2007 10:11 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snipped wacky wireless crap] I'm planning to wipe that lappy and start over anyway (need to use encryption) so I'll start over from scratch on the wireless. If I get

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

How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???

2007-10-10 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
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 from my Zyxel AP which is