my rtl8180 wireless pcmcia in my thinkpad works great in hardy. my /etc/network/interfaces contains > auto wlan0 > iface wlan0 inet dhcp > wireless-essid wm > wireless-key foobar > and it comes right up on bootup. i dropped the same /etc/network/interfaces into intrepid (2.6.27-15-generic), but no luck. might there be something else i need to do? the rtl8180 modules load, but no route nor ipaddress gets set. similarly in centos5.4 (2.6.18-164.2.1.el5) the rtl8180 modules load, but here i *do* get a route and ipaddress, it completes DHCP but then can't ping the gateway or anything except itself, and tho the 'Act' light on the card is flashing, the 'Link' light is dark. the lights are the same for intrepid. in hardy, where it works, the 'Link' light is lit. the only relevant /var/log/messages line, in intrepid: kernel: [ 681.206785] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready in centos5.4: avahi-daemon[2610]: Registering new address record for 192.168.0.71 on wlan0. i suspect the hardy driver is good and the others deficient, but i dunno. where would i look to compare driver versions? any other ideas? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20091103/5bcf4b03/attachment.htm