| Frank van Schie 2005-05-02, 8:34 pm |
| ScratchMonkey wrote:
quote:
> Wireless is tough, esp. with Linux, because the chipset makers are saving
> money by moving RF functions into the OS driver (like they did with
> Winmodems), and it can't be open source for fear of the FCC or its foreign
> equivalent. They don't want their chips used as high-power Swiss Army
> Knives of radio.
That's why I use "ndiswrapper", Swiss Army Knife of Windows driver
loading. With naught but a .sys and a .inf file, I can run even the
crappy RTL8180 card.
Now for the problem. It comes up, establishes a link to the ol' router,
autodetects everything just fine when I look with iwconfig, but can't
actually send out any IP packets. Did a 'tcpdump -i wlan0', and it shows
the router, but it stays remarkably blank when I do a 'dhclient wlan0'...
Any clues?
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