Unable to configure wireless with FC4

From: Fil (fbonjour_nospam_at_urbanet.ch)
Date: 09/21/05 

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:35:32 +0200

Hello,

I have a Dell 1450 wireless card which I had working with Debian.
Since I moved to FC4, it doesn't connect any more to my router.

Here is what I have:

1. If I setup ifcfg-wlan for DHCP, "ifup wlan0" just sends a bunch
   of DHCP requests to 255.255.255.255 that remain unanswered:

   dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
   dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
   dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
   dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19

2. If I setup the I address statically, the card comes up, but then I
   can't ping the router. (I ran ethereal and tried to ping the router,
   and all I got was a series of ARP requests "Who has 10.51.32.90?
   Tell 10.51.32.165". The router does have address 10.51.32.90, and the
   static IP address is 10.51.32.165. the network is 255.255.255.0.)

  

Here are the ifconfig and iwconfig once wlan0 is up:

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:43:66:1F:17
          inet addr:10.52.31.165 Bcast:10.52.31.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::211:43ff:fe66:1f17/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:4192 (4.0 KiB) TX bytes:1530 (1.4 KiB)
          Memory:faffa000-faffbfff 

---
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless
Extension, but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver
features may not be available...
wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"fbwifi"  Nickname:"dirac.fbonjour.ch"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:14:BF:26:03:4C
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm
          RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-31 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
Could it be the warning? The ESSID, frequency, mode, rate are OK. I
have not setup any security yet, not even a MAC address filter.
I can do network OK with eth0 instead of wlan0.
I'd appreciate any ideas!
Filipe

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