[Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

[Bob Miller]

Michael H. Collins wrote:

> do you do "dhcpcd eth1"  or whatever your wireless device thinks it is?

Yes.  Ethereal showed DHCP discover packets going out, but no replies
coming back.  Unless I set them, iwconfig showed no ESSID, zero access
point, and the wrong frequency.  There was an issue where I could only
switch to channel 6 (which the AP used) when in Ad-Hoc mode, and
switching to Managed mode would switch back to channel 1.  I worked
around that by specifying channel 6 at modprobe.  But still no
connecty.

Anyone know what a BSSID is?  That's what kismet reports, and
I kind of assumed that's the access point's MAC.  But is it?

Anyway, I used ifconfig, iwconfig (frustratingly), and kismet.  What
else should I be using when the wireless doesn't work?

> Take your laptop and yell out:
> "Can a brother get a ip address?"

Uh, yeah.  That's what I tried to do. (-:

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