WiFi doesn't work

Xavier Bestel xavier.bestel at free.fr
Thu Sep 11 15:29:50 CEST 2008


On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 14:28 +0200, Tore Martin Hagen wrote:
> The problem is not WLAN but the dhcp client, as you see you get a 
> response, but then you send back a DHCPDECLINE.
> 
> What you can do is to stop the dhcp client and then configure the 
> interface manually.
> 
> ifconfig eth0 192.168.4.180 netmask 255.255.255.0

I tried that, but I couldn't get a ping to get through.
Even after manually fiddling with routes to be sure they were setup
correctly, I couldn't get anything to work.
USB works perfectly though.

Is the GUI thing (in "settings" from 2008.8) supposed to work with a WEP
network ?

Thanks,
	Xav






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