Wireless Card Doesn't Seem to Working :(

[L. Paul Andralouis]

Hi:

     You might try checking the router with another
wireless device, since it looks like the card is
working but not getting a dhcp lease from the router.

--Paul

--- Lovell Mcilwain <lovell.mcilwain at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> I am not sure what happened to my machine but for
> whatever reason, my  
> wireless card has stopped functioning all together.
> 
> I basically rebooted my machine, cause my network
> dropped but that  
> didn't seem to fix the problem.
> 
> I am running FC4 and using ndiswrapper since it
> doesn't have  
> supporter drivers for Broadcom WIFI cards.
> 
> Things I have tried:
> 
> 1. Tried specifying my network settings via the gui
> and via command line
> 2. Created a new network profile and entered my
> settings (using dhcp  
> and static IP address)
> 3. Re-installed ndiswrapper and Broadcom drivers
> 
> In between all of these I ran dmesg to try and see
> what was going on  
> but all I saw was:
> 
>   ACPI-0105: *** Error: Could not allocate new
> owner_id (32 max),  
> AE_OWNER_ID_LIMIT
>   ACPI-0509: *** Error: Method execution failed  
> [\_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.BAT1._BST] (Node dfe261c0),
> AE_OWNER_ID_LIMIT
> 
> And there are no other messages.
> 
> In /var/log/messages I saw:
> Oct 13 09:14:20 Blade dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on
> wlan0 to  
> 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1
> Oct 13 09:14:21 Blade dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS
> received.
> Oct 13 09:14:21 Blade dhclient: No working leases in
> persistent  
> database - sleeping.
> 
> When I do an ifconfig I see:
> 
> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
> 00:90:4B:9F:99:9E
>            inet6 addr: fe80::290:4bff:fe9f:999e/64
> Scope:Link
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500 
> Metric:1
>            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>            Memory:e8100000-e8101fff
> 
> Can any tell me anyway i can fix this?
> 
> 
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