Hi,

Today I installed slack11(with the 2.6 kernel) on my vaio VGN-SZ1M/B, I installed the ipw3945 driver, ifconfig says it's ok, iwconfig does too. The problem is when I run dhclient eth1, i get an error like :"eth1: not found".
Moreover, dhcpcd times out.
note that i modified /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf in order to enable dhcp support for eth1.

Thanks to anyone who can help.

smooss

You could try something like;

sorry I allready tried that, i can connect to my access point but i can't get an ip using dhclient or dhcpcd..

Do you use WEP or WPA
are you sure you installed the firmware etc.
http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/INSTALL

nothing by now, i just want to connect =)
EDIT : Yes, i did install all that ipw3945 /ieee stuff.
I can iwlist, or iwconfig, no problem, eht problem is getting the ip with dhclient : i get something like that :
"eth1: not found"

and dhcpclient times out...

post iwconfig eth1
also
ls /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
or
ls /lib/firmware/

here it is :

root@sam:~# iwconfig eth1
eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"wifi" Nickname:"sam"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:14:85:8399
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:15 dBm
Retry limit:15 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=75/100 Signal level=-59 dBm Noise level=-60 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:7 Missed beacon:0


root@sam:~# ls /lib/firmware/
3CCFEM556.cis COMpad2.cis DP83903.cis LA-PCM.cis NE2K.cis PE-200.cis RS-COM-2P.cis tamarack.cis
3CXEM556.cis COMpad4.cis E-CARD.cis MT5634ZLX.cis PCMLM28.cis PE520.cis ipw3945.ucode

I don't know looks like it should work. You can try manually if you know the numbers
something like;
but dhcp should work, Are you connecting through a router? DSL modem?

Are you absolutely SURE that you have run "ifconfig eth1 up" before running "dhcpcd eth1"? Your problem has all the hallmarks of an ethernet device which has not been brought up.

100% sure...
here's what i get using dhclient :



eth1: not found

(with some more stuff before and after like readme or (c))

hey you know what ?i tried ifconfig etc...,didn't work.
But now, when i do dhclient it no longer says eth1 not found, but seems to work quite good excepted that it doesnt work =)
Seems that it cant get any dhcpooffers...
any idea ?

So now what is the output from the following three commands run as root?

ifconfig
iwconfig
route

here it is :


root@sam:~#:ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:4A:F6:42:BB
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:10

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:02:0D:6B:13
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:201 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe000 Memory:dc100000-dc100fff

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

root@sam:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 unassociated ESSIDff/any Nickname:"sam"
Mode:Managed Frequency=nan kHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm
Retry limit:15 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:212 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.


root@sam:~# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo


ok folks for me it's all, i get some sleep, see you in a few hours maybe.just post your ideas =)
thank you very much
sam

Your wireless is not actually associated (connected) to your router. So it's no surprise that dhcpcd/dhclient doesn't work.

While I have your attention, do you see those smileys in your post? You can get rid of them and make your posts easier to read if you surround system responses with [ code ] and [ /code ], without the embedded spaces, of course.

ok ok, iw was not associated while copying the text but theres a reason : it doesnt changes anything :
see ? I didn't put the output of dhclient , at that time it says always : eth1:not found
Now, i tried it :

(route returns the same thing)