[Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

[larry price]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:51:18 -0800, Bob Miller <kbob at jogger-egg.com> wrote:
> Lots of you are using WiFi with Linux.  I am too, in certain
> locations.  (home and The Strand, to name two.)  But when it doesn't
> work, I have zero clue how to diagnose what's wrong.
> 
> This weekend, I was at a hotel with an open access WiFi network.  All
> of the Windows users I was with connected to the net more or less
> automatically, but I never got my system talking.
> 
> I managed to get Kismet working.  Kismet gave me lots of info about
> the network, but I wasn't able to translate that into a working
> configuration.  I spent several hours on it.  Very frustrating.  (I
> have Kismet's packet dumps if anybody wants to see...)  I had two WiFi
> cards, too, the Intel Pro/Wireless 2100 (aka Centrino) built into the
> laptop and an Orinoco (Hermes) card.  No joy with either.

Could it have been a DHCP problem rather than a wireless problem?

Was the AP made by D-Link (they have a proprietary speedup, that
degrades for uncapable windows machines but not for the rest of the
world)?

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