Cisco Aironet 350 card on Mandrake 10 Official: card detected but doesn't get IP

amitram2001 · 09-11-2004, 08:57 PM

Hi,

I have a Sony Vaio with Mandrake 10 Official on it. I am trying to use my Cisco Aironet 350 wireless card on a home network. I can get the card to work with Knoppix 3.4 and with Windows so the setup is fine. However with Mandrake 10, the card is detected on boot but it doesn't get an IP. I downloaded wireless-tools for Mandrake and tried iwconfig but it doesn't give me anything. Please help,

odious1 · 09-11-2004, 09:01 PM

what does lsmod show? I am not familiar with this card, do you remember what modules were associated with it from Knoppix?

robinang · 09-13-2004, 12:18 AM

can tell me the id of the card?
wlan0?

which wireless extension are u using ndiswrapper???

i can help u if it is ndiswrapper cos i just got my intel wifi to work on tat extension

More than willing to share wat i went thru to make it work with ya

kersten78 · 09-13-2004, 11:40 PM

If the card is active on boot, you should be able to use either dhclient or dhcpcd to get an IP. On Slackware, dhcpcd -t 10 -d wlan0 worked for me, and on Mandrake 10 I just used dhclient with no options and it picked up an IP for wlan0. I think you can specify the device by typing dhclient wlan0 or dhclient -wlan0. Plain ol' dhclient worked for me, though. You can also add a script to your rc.local file to activate it on boot once you figure out the right command. Hope this helps.

amitram2001 · 09-19-2004, 06:10 PM

On doing ifconfig i see eth0,eth1 and wifi0. i have wireless tools installed.

amit