Description of problem: My Cisco Aironet pcmcia card doesn't work under Fedora Core 5. It does work under Ubuntu Breezy and Windows XP on the same hardware. Ubuntu Dapper has similar problems. I can set the essid and the key, but dhclient hangs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enable wireless interface using the Network configurator 2. Acquiring IP information fails. Actual results: Enabling the wireless interface using the graphical interface fails while acquiring ip adress. Expected results: Additional info:
I have also installed FreeBSD 6.0 on the same hardware and the wireless card works perfectly, so this is definitely not a harware problem. It used to work under Linux as well, but not anymore.
Hi, here I am with again some more info. I have changed the firmware on the wireless network card and now things are working again! The Cisco website proved very unhelpful, but I finally found some images here, if anyone should have the same problem: http://www.uni-konstanz.de/RZ/wlan/ipsec/software/cisco-client-adapter-firmware/
I am having this same problem with FC5 on my laptop. I was able to replicate the problem on slckware 10.2. The problem is all packets are being dropped. if you run iwevent you find that the broadcast packets for DHCP are also dropped. I dont know if it matters at this stage of the process but there is no entry in the route tables for the network.