On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Christian Volker wrote:
I tried to use DHCP, but the card didn't get assigned to any IP address.
So I
used the manual configuration which seemed to work fine during startup.
But
unfortunately not network connection could be made. So no ICMP ping
packets
where reaching the destination.
I have had a similar experience. After your interface starts, check to see if dhclient is running. It seems that for some reason, even though I have BOOTPROTO=dhcp in the interface configuration file, it doesn't get an address, but if I run dhclient eth1 it gets an address immediately.
Even when I configure it manually, I don't get any connectivity. So it doesn't seem to be related to DHCP here.
But it could be related to the DHCP issue I'm seeing on FC8 and OpenSuSE10.2 Thanks for the hint.
So you have an ipw2200 running in CentOS5 without any issues? How did you do this? ;)
I have an ipw2200 as well in my Thinkpad T43.
I would suggest using NetworkManager instead of messing with iwconfig.
Do this:
service NetworkManager restart chkconfig NetworkManager on
and then you should see a new applet-icon in Gnome. (if not, run nm-applet as user)
NetworkManager works a bit like windows, it will tell you when it connects and disconnects (also for wired) and you can easily select a wireless nework and provide keys.