Hey guys,

I have a Compaq Presario V2000 series notebook. I have tried to install Ubuntu, and in the installation it finds both my onboard Gigabit network card AND a Minitar Wireless cardbus, however once it goes off to try and get an IP via DHCP (I have an IPCop box as my DHCP server for the moment) it says it cant get one.

Now the strange thing is I have tried Suse10,10.1,10.2; Ubuntu (latest, downloaded 2 days ago..); Mandriva 2006; FedoraCore 6; and they all DETECT the two devices, however cant get an IP.

I have played around in Suse the longest on the laptop, and even with the wireless it can find my wireless network with full strength and everything, however when I tell it to connect it gets to "Configuring IP" (or something) and just closes and doesnt give me an IP. This happens on both devices. If I assign a static IP, it still doesnt work.

My IP range has more then enough IPs left.

The problem isnt with the cable or DHCP server (guessing) as I am at the moment dualbooting with Windows XP Home and both wireless and cable work. I just want to get rid of this damn Windows on the notebook.

Cheers all!

Have you looked at the hardware compat. list (HCL) to see if the devices are compatable with Linux?

If you open a terminal and as root enter
What is the output? Is there an IP assigned to the device?
Can you configure the device manually with ifconfig?
If not you need to get the correct module loaded or compile support into the kernel for the device.

If you do have an IP for the device can you ping somewhere by URL? If not can you ping it by IP address? If you can ping it by IP then it is a DNS issue. You need to add a default route or nameserver.

What does dmesg report the devices to be?

Troubleshoot, start with the device working properly, then support for it, then configuration

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/

Also are you trying to configure it as root or user? You'll have to be root to configure a network device.

I am having the same mysterious problem. im running slackware 11 on a gatway laptop, using ndiswrapper. I am able to recognize the access point, but cannot get an ip address with dhcpcd, nor can i even ping the AP that iwconfig shows is configured properly. this has stumped me, I am running out of things to try to fix this....

Have YOU enabled IP forwarding?