Hi,
I set up my Dell Inspiron 1300 using this howto a while back, and it worked fine once I had realised that I should not use network manager (I use static ip addressing here). the only thing I didn't understand was that the Broadcom card was seen as eth1 rather than wlan0. No biggie, it worked, so thanks to the op.
Then I didn't use wireless for a couple of weeks. When I used it again, things had gone badly wrong. Kernel version 2.6.15-27 came along during that period, along with other updates, so perhaps something changed.
The previously working eth1 had disappeared completely in system > administration > networking, and was replaced with wlan0. However, wlan0 didn't work, and would hang the machine hard when I tried to configure it with ip address, subnet mask etc. There was no response to the keyboard and the caps lock and scroll lock key lights started flashing in sync. Weird!
So I went back to the beginning and configured it all from scratch, checking the entries in /etc/iftab, /etc/network/interfaces and so on. I also checked ndiswrapper was running. All seemed ok, but every time I hit the 'configure' button for the wlan0 interface I locked up my machine.
So, as an experiment I enabled dhcp services on the router, and then set wlan0 to use dhcp. Whaddaya know? It started working. So now I think my settings for static ip must be wrong. I went back and checked them all again, then changed back to static ip. Boom, it hangs. Back to dhcp, and it all works fine.
So now I'm totally confused. This worked with static ip for about two weeks, with the Broadcom card as eth1. Now I can only make it work with dhcp, as wlan0.
What the heck happened here?? Can anyone offer any clues about what may have causes this?
Thanks,
Glenn.
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