Hi All,
I have a Linksys WPC11 RevA wifi card and a Linksys Router on a Comcast Cable Modem.
The computer is a Thinkpad 600E that I've run Redhat 8 and 9 and SuSE 9 and 9.1 on.
When booting the card identifies as a Bromax OEM 11mbps 902.11b Wlan CArd (Prism 3)
This card has worked with the orinoco_cs module driver under SuSE 9.0 and SuSE 9.1 Pro up until I did the first online update.
Before the first online update, the card comes up, and the dhcpcd gets its local ip address from my Linksys router for the local address, and it gets the netmasks 255.255.255.0, the gateway 192.168.1.1, and the dns entries from Comcast.
So when I installed 9.1 Pro, everhthing was fine, the kwifi application shows strong signal and 11 Mbps connect speed
THEN I DID MY FIRST ONLINE UPDATE, to update all the packages, and every since, the card still comes up, the singal strength is good, bu the connection speed is yellow at 2 Mb/s and no IP address is given.
If use YAST and delete and reconfigure the card, the same results are seen.
Also If I go as su and do ifstatus wlan0 I get the following
Code:
wlan0 device: "The Linksys Group, Inc" Instant Wireless Network PC CArd", "ISL37300P", "RevA"
wlan0 configuration" wlan-bus-pcmcia
dhcpcd running
wlan0 no IP address assigned (DHCP)
.......
It then has a bunch of stuff saying that its connected on the correct channel to the access point and the singal level is good and much more than the noise level.
If I ifdown wlan0 then ifup wlan0, then I can see the wlan0 device coming up and dhcpcd starting
Code:
Starting DHCP Client Daemon on wlan0............ no IP address yet..... backgrounding.
I then tried just assigning the IP addresses directly, along with gateway, net mask and DNS's but it didn't work either.
So I'm baffled, What Happened in the Online Update? It was working great right from the install, and this card and computer have been wifi'ing in Linux for a couple of years.
So Any ideas?
