On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 11:49 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > Oh I'm very familiar with wireless-tools to assign ESSIDs and whatnot. > What I experienced is I would set an ESSID (no key, wide open) but > iwconfig wouldn't show the wireless device bound to it, nor would a > dhclient find a DHCP server to get an address from. > > Now my problem is that it won't even load the firmware. No clues in dmesg? I was recently having problems with ipw2100 firmware (but it was during boot only and got fixed with the udev update). You could try this to eliminate the possibility of a udev problem: $ modprobe -r <prism module> $ echo "/sbin/hotplug" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug $ modprobe <prism module> -- Ziga