How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???



Hi,

I am running Debian Lenny on a Dell Vostro laptop which has a ipw3945
wifi card.

The card is recognised by the software and it even works somehow (I can
see all the wifi networks in my building using wifi-radar). But whatever
I do I cannot get a (DHCP) ip address from my Zyxel AP which is using a
WEP key (and it did when I still used Windows Vist so I know for a fact
that it is possible).

Does anyone have any idea of how to get this card talking to my WEP AP?

TIA

Some maybe useful info:

*****************
/etc/network/interfaceses:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

auto eth1

iface eth2 inet dhcp
wireless-essid askesis
wireless-key s:My_Edited_Away_Key

auto eth2

*****************
iwlist scanning:

lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1 Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth2 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:A0:C5:68:EC:B1
ESSID:"askesis"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Master
Channel:1
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
Quality=84/100 Signal level=-49 dBm Noise level=-49 dBm
Extra: Last beacon: 68ms ago

*****************
iwconfig eth2:

eth2 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"askesis" Nickname:"askesis"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:A0:C5:68:EC:B1
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power:15 dBm
Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:Myxx-Edit-AWay-Keyx-xxxx-xxxx-xx Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=84/100 Signal level=-49 dBm Noise level=-49 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:74 Missed beacon:0


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Groeten,

Joost Kraaijeveld
Askesis B.V.
Molukkenstraat 14
6524NB Nijmegen
tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277
fax: 024-3608416
web: www.askesis.nl


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