[Gllug] Getting an IP address at a public WiFi point

[lesleyb at herlug.org.uk]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 09:45:57AM +0100, John Winters wrote:
> Alan Pope wrote:
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > 2009/8/15 John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk>:
> >> I've just returned from holiday and noticed a recurring problem when
> >> trying to use public (and other) WiFi access points.
> >>
> > 
> > What distribution are you using?
> 
> Debian Lenny (2.6.26)
> 
> > I have had similar issues to what you
> > describe, on my own laptops. One with an Intel 3945 Wifi chip, the
> > other with an Atheros chipset.
> 
> Hmmm...
> 
> john at liberty:~$ lspci | grep -i wireless
> 04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
> [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
> john at liberty:~$
> 
> Sounds similar.
I have the same and I've successfully used the lappie outside on free services
I have the firmware-iwlwifi package installed

Package: firmware-iwlwifi
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 0.17
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/kernel
Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel at lists.debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 1090k
Suggests: initramfs-tools, linux-image
Description: Binary firmware for Intel Wireless 3945, 4965 and 5000-series cards
 This package contains the binary firmware for Intel Wireless 3945, 4965, 5100 and 5300 cards.

  Contents:
   * Intel Wireless 3945 firmware, version 15.28.1.6
   * Intel Wireless 3945 firmware, version 15.32.2.9
   * Intel Wireless 4965 firmware, version 228.57.1.21
   * Intel Wireless 4965 firmware, version 228.57.2.23
   * Intel Wireless 5000 firmware, version 5.4.A.11
Homepage: http://intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi&n=downloads

> 
> [snip]
> > I would suspect the wifi driver. I had no end of issues (as you
> > describe) in kernels prior to 2.6.30, specifically with the Intel wifi
> > chip, but it seems better now I'm on Ubuntu 9.10 with Linux kernel
> > 2.6.31.
> 
> Thank you.  2.6.30 seems to have just made it into Squeeze so I'll try
> installing that kernel and see if it makes any difference.
> 
Above package seems to work fine with 
Linux harriet 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 26 20:35:48 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Regards

L.
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