[Ndiswrapper-general] FW: ndiswrapper and ifdown/ifup (interfaces)

[Vasquez V. J. E <jav...@in...>]

Hi !

I got my Intel Pro/Wireless LAN 2100 working.  The steps I can get it to
work are:

modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
iwconfig wlan0 key s:llllnnnnllll
iwconfig wlan0 essid LLLL-LLLL
dhclient wlan0

where l corresponds to lower case letters, L to upper case ones and n to
numbers.  In reality it shouldn't matter, but I just wanted to make the
point that no quotes are required (when using them things don't work any
way).

However I'm NOT able to make the ifup/ifdown work through the interfaces
file.  My interfaces file has the folowing lines to get this to work (I
tried "-" instead of "_" for the wireless setting just in case and it
didn't work either):

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
        wireless_mode Managed
        wireless_key s:llllnnnnllll
        wireless_essid LLLL-LLLL

but when I do "ifup wlan0", the request for an IP never gets an answer:

Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html

Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:04:23:6a:b8:43
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:04:23:6a:b8:43
Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
...

When things work with dhclient directly I get instead:

Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html

Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:04:23:6a:b8:43
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:04:23:6a:b8:43
Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.2.1
bound to 192.168.2.4 -- renewal in 129600 seconds.

something else are the messages got while starting the ndiswrapper
module:

ndiswrapper version 0.7 loaded
ndiswrapper adding w70n51.sys
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:04:23:6a:b8:43 using driver
w70n51.sys

I don't like configuring the card any time I want to connect, so I
really would like it to work with the interfaces (ifup/ifdown).  I think
it's not the configuration itself since I gave a shot to a trial of
another non free (I don't like the idea of non free) wrapper
(driverloader), and it works with the same interfaces configuration
(although a different interface since driverloader uses eth0 instead of
wlan0), so it might have been something related to ndiswrapper itself,
well that's at least my conclusion...

Any suggestions and hints are much appreciated...

Thanks,

___________________________
Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas