wireless, Broadcom & jaunty

[Derek Broughton]

Joep L. Blom wrote:

> Where wmaster0 and pan0 reside I don't know. That eth1 had no IP-address
> is correct: it is not connected.

wmaster0 is some kind of pseudo-device related to your wifi.  pan0, I think, 
is bluetooth related and may show up if you have bluetooth server software 
installed even if you don't have a bluetooth device.
> 
> The wired connection works OK.
> The MAC-address 00:C0:49:54:77:9E is the address of the wireless router.
> When I do a "networking restart" it gets it's wired address from the
> dhcp-server but the wireless sends DHCPDISCOVER packets to the same
> server on the net but the dhcp-server doesn't respond.

Actually, DHCP discovery packets are sent to the broadcast address (ie, 
every device on the subnet sees them), not a particular server.  I'm not 
sure how that could be an issue, though.

> This is the same
> with or without the wired connection. Maybe I have to look at the
> response packets from the dhcp-server?

Do you _have_ response packets?  No need to get into packet sniffing - what 
actually shows in syslog?  If you don't actually see DHCPOFFER, then it 
seems your router never hears from you.