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. -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]