Debian sid.
A little over a week ago my laptop stopped being able to complete a connection. I am using an Orinoco Silver (Hermes chipset) The failure is the well-known “unable to obtain IP address.” I have used both wicd and Gnome Network Manager. iwlist and wifi-radar can see the access point. dhclient also fails.
TIA for any ideas as to how to diagnose and solve this,
Paul Scott
Here are syslog entries from dhclient eth2 and dmegs showing the insertion of the PCMCIA card.
Thanks,
Paul
dmesg:
[ 1624.772201] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1 [ 1624.772239] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. [ 1624.809253] pcmcia 1.0: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0 [ 1625.729461] cfg80211: Using static regulatory domain info [ 1625.729481] cfg80211: Regulatory domain: US [ 1625.729492] (start_freq – end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp) [ 1625.729512] (2402000 KHz – 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2700 mBm) [ 1625.729530] (5170000 KHz – 5190000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm) [ 1625.729549] (5190000 KHz – 5210000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm) [ 1625.729567] (5210000 KHz – 5230000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm) [ 1625.729584] (5230000 KHz – 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm) [ 1625.729600] (5735000 KHz – 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 3000 mBm) [ 1625.730050] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US [ 1626.033421] orinoco 0.15 (David Gibson, Pavel Roskin
, et al) [ 1626.077137] orinoco_cs 0.15 (David Gibson , Pavel Roskin
, et al) [ 1626.185881] orinoco_cs 1.0: Hardware identity 0001:0001:0004:0000 [ 1626.185993] orinoco_cs 1.0: Station identity 001f:0001:0006:0010 [ 1626.186018] orinoco_cs 1.0: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 6.16 [ 1626.190614] orinoco_cs 1.0: firmware: requesting agere_sta_fw.bin [ 1626.866015] orinoco_cs 1.0: Hardware identity 0001:0001:0004:0000 [ 1626.866155] orinoco_cs 1.0: Station identity 001f:0002:0009:0030 [ 1626.866176] orinoco_cs 1.0: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 9.48 [ 1626.866189] orinoco_cs 1.0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported [ 1626.866203] orinoco_cs 1.0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported [ 1626.866218] orinoco_cs 1.0: WEP supported, 104-bit key [ 1626.866228] orinoco_cs 1.0: WPA-PSK supported [ 1627.656203] udev: renamed network interface eth1 to eth2 [ 1629.008197] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth2: link is not ready [ 1629.225289] eth2: New link status: Connected (0001) [ 1629.225495] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth2: link becomes ready [ 1630.720511] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn’t support manual roaming [ 1635.918066] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn’t support manual roaming [ 1640.216115] eth2: no IPv6 routers present [ 1641.125130] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn’t support manual roaming [ 1646.302985] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn’t support manual roaming [ 1651.624297] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn’t support manual roaming [ 1659.181055] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn’t support manual roaming [ 1664.379099] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn’t support manual roaming [ 1669.586645] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn’t support manual roaming [ 1674.783657] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn’t support manual roaming [ 1679.989689] eth2: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn’t support manual roaming
syslog:
Jul 6 19:36:27 gotojoy avahi-autoipd(eth2)[14580]: Got SIGTERM, quitting. Jul 6 19:36:27 gotojoy avahi-autoipd(eth2)[14580]: Callout STOP, address 169.254.5.190 on interface eth2 Jul 6 19:36:27 gotojoy avahi-daemon[1239]: Withdrawing address record for 169.254.5.190 on eth2. Jul 6 19:36:27 gotojoy avahi-daemon[1239]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth2.IPv4 with address 169.254.5.190. Jul 6 19:36:27 gotojoy avahi-daemon[1239]: Interface eth2.IPv4 no longer relevant for mDNS. Jul 6 19:36:27 gotojoy avahi-autoipd(eth2)[14581]: client: RTNETLINK answers: No such process Jul 6 19:36:29 gotojoy dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 Jul 6 19:36:32 gotojoy dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 Jul 6 19:36:39 gotojoy dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 Jul 6 19:36:46 gotojoy dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 Jul 6 19:36:57 gotojoy dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19 Jul 6 19:37:16 gotojoy dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14 Jul 6 19:37:23 gotojoy dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 Jul 6 19:37:30 gotojoy dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 Jul 6 19:37:30 gotojoy dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received. Jul 6 19:37:30 gotojoy dhclient: No working leases in persistent database – sleeping. Jul 6 19:37:30 gotojoy avahi-autoipd(eth2)[14928]: Found user ‘avahi-autoipd’ (UID 102) and group ‘avahi-autoipd’ (GID 104). Jul 6 19:37:30 gotojoy avahi-autoipd(eth2)[14928]: Successfully called chroot(). Jul 6 19:37:30 gotojoy avahi-autoipd(eth2)[14928]: Successfully dropped root privileges. Jul 6 19:37:30 gotojoy avahi-autoipd(eth2)[14928]: Starting with address 169.254.5.190 Jul 6 19:37:34 gotojoy avahi-autoipd(eth2)[14928]: Callout BIND, address 169.254.5.190 on interface eth2 Jul 6 19:37:34 gotojoy avahi-daemon[1239]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth2.IPv4 with address 169.254.5.190. Jul 6 19:37:34 gotojoy avahi-daemon[1239]: New relevant interface eth2.IPv4 for mDNS. Jul 6 19:37:34 gotojoy avahi-daemon[1239]: Registering new address record for 169.254.5.190 on eth2.IPv4. Jul 6 19:37:38 gotojoy avahi-autoipd(eth2)[14928]: Successfully claimed IP address 169.254.5.190 Jul 6 19:37:39 gotojoy dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 Jul 6 19:37:48 gotojoy dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15 Jul 6 19:38:03 gotojoy dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13 Jul 6 19:38:16 gotojoy dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 Jul 6 19:38:24 gotojoy dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received. Jul 6 19:38:24 gotojoy dhclient: No working leases in persistent database – sleeping.
Okay, the card reports that it’s connected. What’s the output of ‘iwconfig eth2′?
Celejar
iwconfig:
eth2 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:”bliss” Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: None Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/0 Retry limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=80/70 Signal level=-22 dBm Noise level=-92 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
and ifconfig:
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2d:1e:db:1f inet6 addr: fe80::202:2dff:fe1e:db1f/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1 errors:60 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:16555 (16.1 KiB) Interrupt:3 Base address:0×100
Thanks,
Paul
Not at this point. (That’s another story)
It will when we get an IP address. Any idea why we get an IPv6 address?
Thanks,
Paul