Wireless networking in Linux

[CFGraham]

Anybody have any luck? I have the Dell Truemobile 1400 card. I'm using driverloader from linuxant.com and that part of it appears to be working. However, when I try to bring up the network device it never receives a DHCP request(my ethernet card does).

Here is the log from messages. Any help would be much appreciated.

eth0 is ethernet card
eth1 is wireless card

Jan 13 13:43:13 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
Jan 13 13:43:14 localhost dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1
Jan 13 13:43:14 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Jan 13 13:43:14 localhost dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
Jan 13 13:43:14 localhost dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.103 -- renewal in 41924 s econds.
Jan 13 13:43:14 localhost ifup: done.
Jan 13 13:43:14 localhost network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded
Jan 13 13:43:14 localhost kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Jan 13 13:43:14 localhost ifup:
Jan 13 13:43:14 localhost ifup: Determining IP information for eth1...
Jan 13 13:43:18 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
Jan 13 13:43:23 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
Jan 13 13:43:34 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
Jan 13 13:43:49 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21
Jan 13 13:44:10 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
Jan 13 13:44:19 localhost dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Jan 13 13:44:19 localhost ifup: failed.
Jan 13 13:44:19 localhost network: Bringing up interface eth1: failed

[Strike]

Well, first, some info is needed - distribution/version, kernel (version, and where you got it from), kernel modules (i.e., have you installed any personally or compiled any?)

Have you configured the SSID, WEP keys, and channel and all that fun stuff for the card? Also, are you sure your Wireless AP is issuing IPs via DHCP?

Also, I'm not familiar with "driverloader", btw, so keep that in mind throughout the discussion.

[CFGraham]

I'm running Redhat 9 but I am running the Fedora kernel:
2.4.22-1.2129.2.nptl_dsc

I followed most instructions from the following site:
http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/resources/dell-i8500-linux

I downloaded the kernel from the URL below mainly because it included support for my ethernet card and ACPI.
http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/resources/soft/kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.2.nptl_dsc.i686.rpm

My wireless access point works fine in Windows(dhcp is working). I don't know a whole lot about iwconfig or where it stores its configuration files.

Driverloader is a kernel module that lets you run Windows drivers in Linux. Broadcom hasn't made any linux drivers yet so thats really the only option.
-Graham

[Strike]

Yeah, I don't know a whole lot about iwconfig either because Debian makes all that stuff transparent for me :p Well, the first thing I'd try and figure out is how to configure the wlan card assuming that the kernel module is loaded and working correctly, as in where Red Hat users are supposed to do the configuration and whatnot. Once you're certain that the configuration matches everything like it's supposed to (specifically at the very least check the things I mentioned above), then I'd check and see if anyone had any success with driverloader and your specific drivers.