Following instructions from houseofcraig.net, I have installed the drivers
for my D-Link DWL-650+ on my laptop but I'm not quite able to connect to
the internet yet.

I usually login at a coffeeshop with a free wireless access point and with
Windows, I have no problems but no success yet with Linux.

The commands that I type are:

iwconfig eth0 mode Managed essid any
ifconfig eth0 up
dhclient eth0

When I do iwconfig and ifconfig -a, I am able to see the MAC address of
the access point and also the MAC address of my wireless card. Looking
at /var/log/messages, it says that I am successfully associating with the
access point.

However, in ifconfig -a, I don't get an IP address. When I type route, the
table is not empty and there are two lines in it.

I am pretty sure that the problem is not with the drivers. It's just with DHCP.
I've tried booting up with and without the wireless card plugged in and
am just at my wits ends.

Can somebody clue me in on what I am doing wrong? I can't believe I've
spent a whole week on this!

Thank you.

Since I haven't received any responses, I want to clarify my
earlier question.

I'm running Fedora Core 1 on my Toshiba Satellite 1005-S157
laptop which has a D-Link DWL-650+ wireless card. Using the
directions from houseofcraig.net, I have successfully installed
the drivers for the card.

I boot the machine without the card and login as root, and
then I type:

iwconfig eth0 mode Managed essid any
ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig eth0 mtu 576

When I look at the output of iwconfig and ifconfig -a, I can see
the MAC address of the card and also of the access point that
I am trying to connect to. When I look at /var/log/messages,
I can see that the card has successfully associated with the
access point. When I do tcpdump -i eth0, I can see traffic
but the first two lines of the output are:

tcpdump: WARNING: eth0: no IPv4 address assigned
tcpdump: listening on eth0

There doesn't appear to be any errors in either /var/log/messages
or the output of dmesg. However, when I run route, I get two
lines in the output but they correspond to the interface lo, and
not eth0. There is nothing about eth0 in the output of route.

I am thinking that I have a DHCP problem of some kind. I've tried
to run dhclient eth0, but this doesn't really seem to do any good.
I see lots of stuff in /var/log/messages, but I'm still not getting
an IP address from the access point.

Can somebody please help me? Is this a DHCP problem like I think
it is?

Thank you.