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I am using linksys 802.11g USB an it is detected by the system as WUSB54gp wireless on device wlan0.
When I try to activate I get:
determining IP information for wlan0... Failed
I have tried varius settings without success any Ideas?
I am using linksys 802.11g USB an it is detected by the system as WUSB54gp wireless on device wlan0.
When I try to activate I get:
determining IP information for wlan0... Failed
I have tried varius settings without success any Ideas?
Sounds like it could be two different things. Either your wlan0 interface is set to be a static address (doubtful, since it's trying to get a DHCP address), or your linksys doesn't have DHCP enabled.
thanks for the reply The wireless network is running we have 4 different wireless networks in the building so I know that end is OK!
I will try to find a pci card and try that, but most of our cards and USB's are 'n' so I have problems with drivers so I am sticking to 'g'
This problem arrises because the University I work for will not let me put Linux or Unix boxes directly onto the faculty net.
If I solve it I will post the answer.
thanks for the reply The wireless network is running we have 4 different wireless networks in the building so I know that end is OK!
I will try to find a pci card and try that, but most of our cards and USB's are 'n' so I have problems with drivers so I am sticking to 'g'
This problem arrises because the University I work for will not let me put Linux or Unix boxes directly onto the faculty net.
If I solve it I will post the answer.
Thanks
Like I said, you're not getting a DHCP address. Since you have 4 wireless networks, which one are you trying to connect to? And does that network provide DHCP addresses????
If you're wlan interface is trying to get a DHCP address, but your switch/device-further-upstream doesn't dole out DHCP addresses, that's your problem. Do you know anything about the network upstream? Are they static addresses?
I am correct it is not DHCP I am an instuctor for Cisco systems so networking I do know.
I installed a PCI card as I said and it picked up the wireless with no problems so it is something to do with USB so I am now going to see if I can solve that, but thanks for keeping with me on this.
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