Ubuntu finds my wireless but DHCLIENT won't work

igo_mexico · 05-25-2006, 10:04 PM

Hi everybody, back to the community.

I had to leave linux learning

for quite some time since school required lot's of time which I barely had. Yet today i'm missing a couple of hours.

As of today I installed Ubuntu Breezy 5.1 and made

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

and uncommented every repo in order to do:

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

Suddenly it said that it had to download 671mb and I said "fine" but everything was done by eth0 since eth1[wireles] wasn't accepting dhclient but it was present. I ended up with dapper 6.06 The chipset is a broadcom 4308. I had no problems before[ubuntu hoary] but now I find it difficult. Barely impossible to up it. Any ideas? Last time I didn't have any problem at all but now I even recompiled the latest stable kernel 2.16.18 but still nothing.

Hopefully you have the solution to the problem. Thanks a lot in advanced!! After all these years I really feel like a

but still eager to learn

pentode · 05-26-2006, 10:54 AM

I'm not even sure what your question is, but if this is *your* wireless router, I'd turn off encryption and see if it can connect. If it connects, problem is most likely encryption key is wrong. If not, you need to review your network interface configuration file.

What wireless driver are you using? What does ifconfig eth1 tell you?

igo_mexico · 05-26-2006, 11:56 AM

Sorry, the chipset is the one of my integrated wireless card. I have a Dell Inspiron 1150. Let me check my ifconfig eth1 and I'll be back, thanks for your help.

pentode · 05-26-2006, 06:08 PM

Yes, but what are you trying to connect to?

igo_mexico · 05-27-2006, 12:59 AM

eth0 output is

eth0 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID

ff/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
RTS thr

ff Fragment thr

ff
Encryption key

ff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

im running kubuntu dapper rc1 in a amd64

DHCLIENT OUTPUT
root@protoslap:/home/drprotos/Desktop# dhclient
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:14:a5:23:15:31
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:14:a5:23:15:31
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:0f:b0:7a:29:98
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:0f:b0:7a:29:98
Sending on Socket/fallback
receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
send_packet: Network is down

What can it be done ? Any ideas? TIA

pentode · 05-28-2006, 04:50 PM

I don't think you're actually connected to anything. Do you have your own wireless router that you are trying to connect to? In order for your wireless connection to work, there must be something for it to connect to.

DHClient doesn't work because your wireless card is not communicating with anything that can give it a IP address.