[gNewSense-users] no wireless in metad on yeeloong

[Lars Nooden]

I've run into some difficulty with the wireless with a yeeloong
The interface seems available, and the driver loaded, but is unable to get 
a DHCP lease.

/Lars

$ uname -a
Linux gnewsense 2.6.37-libre-lemote #1 PREEMPT Thu Jan 6 11:56:46 UTC 2011 
mips64 GNU/Linux

$ lsmod | grep rtl
rtl8187b              305121  0 
rfkill                 24526  1 rtl8187b
usbcore               213466  5 
rtl8187b,usb_storage,usb_libusual,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd

$ ifconfig wlan0 up

$ ifconfig wlan0
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:17:c4:4d:ed:57
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:4 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:1008 (1008.0 B)

$ dhclient wlan0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:17:c4:4d:ed:57
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:17:c4:4d:ed:57
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.