qbert00001
November 9th, 2008, 11:16 PM
I've been struggling with this for some time, and have recently given it another go. I think I'm damn close this time, but can't quite get things working. Here's my current situation:
I have a Linksys WPC54GS with Speedbooster card in my laptop. I've got the card working using fwcutter/ndiswrapper. This all went fine. My network setup at home is a Netgear WGT624 v3 with latest firmware, configured for WPA2 encryption with AES cipher.
My problem is this: my laptop can associate with the router; iwlist scan shows the router, and iwconfig shows my card associated with the router. Additionally, when I log in to the router I can see that it has associated with the laptop. This, sadly, is as far as I get. No matter what I do, I *cannot* get an IP address. DHCP fails on ifup (the ubiquitous "No persistent leases is database -- sleeping" message). Additionally, even when I configure the laptopn for a static IP, the router doesn't give it out.
The other odd thing here is that even when 'associated' with the router, I can't ping it. I can ping lo, of course.
So my question is two-fold: 1) any ideas on what might be wrong? Is it the WPA authentication step? and 2) any tips on how I can go about debugging this? Is there a verbose flag that I can use to see more diagnostic information when I bring up the interface? I'm thinking of soemthing like the ssh -v flag, which gives tons of information about the handshake, etc.
I spent a fair amount of time looking on the boards for other threads, but didn't find anything specific, so pointers to other possibly related threads would also be helpful.
Thanks.
I have a Linksys WPC54GS with Speedbooster card in my laptop. I've got the card working using fwcutter/ndiswrapper. This all went fine. My network setup at home is a Netgear WGT624 v3 with latest firmware, configured for WPA2 encryption with AES cipher.
My problem is this: my laptop can associate with the router; iwlist scan shows the router, and iwconfig shows my card associated with the router. Additionally, when I log in to the router I can see that it has associated with the laptop. This, sadly, is as far as I get. No matter what I do, I *cannot* get an IP address. DHCP fails on ifup (the ubiquitous "No persistent leases is database -- sleeping" message). Additionally, even when I configure the laptopn for a static IP, the router doesn't give it out.
The other odd thing here is that even when 'associated' with the router, I can't ping it. I can ping lo, of course.
So my question is two-fold: 1) any ideas on what might be wrong? Is it the WPA authentication step? and 2) any tips on how I can go about debugging this? Is there a verbose flag that I can use to see more diagnostic information when I bring up the interface? I'm thinking of soemthing like the ssh -v flag, which gives tons of information about the handshake, etc.
I spent a fair amount of time looking on the boards for other threads, but didn't find anything specific, so pointers to other possibly related threads would also be helpful.
Thanks.