help with wirless on Ubuntu

biojayc · 04-07-2005, 03:21 PM

I'm trying to connect to a wireless network at my university, so I have no access to the router. IPs are dynamic. I have an Orinoco 11a/b/g silver combocard in a dell Inspiron 9100

Here's what I'm trying to do:

Code:

ifconfig ath0 down
iwconfig ath0 essid wlan01
iwconfig ath0 key <key here in hex>
ifconfig ath0 up
dhclient ath0

everything seems to be going okay until the last command. I get this:

sit0: unkown hardware address type 776
sit0: unkown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/ath0/00:20:a6:51:fb:dc
Sending on LPF/ath0/00:20::a6:51:fb:dc
Sending on Socket/fallback
DBCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DBCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14

and then it quites.

I'm very new to linux, so please be patient if it's something stupid. Thanx

biojayc · 04-07-2005, 03:36 PM

just for more info, if I type ifconfig I get the following:

Code:

ath0  Link encap:Ethernet   Haddr  00:20:A6:51:FB:DC
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST   MTU:1500   Metric:1
          RX patckets:0  errors:4601  dropped:0   overruns:0  frame:4601
          TX packets:0  errors:0  dropped:0  overruns:0 carrier 0
          collisions:0 txqueulen:199
          RX bytes:0 (0.0) b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:19 Memory:e0b40000-eob50000

sit0    Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          UP RUNNING NOARP   MTU:1480   Metric:
          RX patckets:0  errors:0 dropped:0   overruns:0  frame:0
          TX packets:0  errors:0  dropped:0  overruns:0 carrier 0
          collisions:0 txqueulen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0) b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

note: I typed that by hand, so forgive any typos

biojayc · 04-08-2005, 03:49 PM

nm I finally figured it out. This is my first post ever using ubuntu online!! anyway, thanx for the help I may have gotten.