Suse 9.2 + wireless network

4 Nov 2004

      Hi,

I'm trying to connect my latop to an open wireless network and I can't 
figure-out why any address IP is a allocated to my laptop. I'm using the 
hostap_pci drivers.
The ESSID is ok and so is the Access Point.

ifstatus wlan0 gives :
    wlan0     device: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 
01)
    wlan0     dhcpcd is still waiting for data
wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"default"  Nickname:"linux"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:0F:3D:09:54:59
          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=35/70  Signal level=-65 dBm  Noise level=-100 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:1490  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:68  Invalid misc:13   Missed beacon:0

iwlist wlan0 scanning gives
wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:0F:3D:09:54:59
                    ESSID:"default"
                    Mode:Master
                    Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
                    Quality:0/70  Signal level:-63 dBm  Noise level:-100 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:22 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:resp_rate=20

The ifcfg-wlan0 generated by Yast is :
OOTPROTO='dhcp'
MTU=''
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='auto'
UNIQUE='WL76.Y1PWjKOI+W6'
USERCONTROL='no'
WIRELESS_AP=''
WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='open'
WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto'
WIRELESS_CHANNEL=''
WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0'
WIRELESS_ESSID=''
WIRELESS_FREQUENCY=''
WIRELESS_KEY=''
WIRELESS_KEY_0=''
WIRELESS_KEY_1=''
WIRELESS_KEY_2=''
WIRELESS_KEY_3=''
WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128'
WIRELESS_MODE='Managed'
WIRELESS_NICK=''
WIRELESS_NWID=''
WIRELESS_POWER='yes'
WIRELESS_WPA_PSK=''
_nm_name='bus-pci-0000:00:09.0'

and dmesg¦tail gives :

wifi0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:0f:3d:09:54:59
wifi0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:0f:3d:09:54:59
wifi0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:0f:3d:09:54:59
martian source 255.255.255.255 from 192.168.0.1, on dev wlan0
ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:0f:3d:09:54:59:08:00

Any ideas what goes wrong ?
Chris.

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Suse 9.2 + wireless network

coutand christophe