whireless IP not showing even though everything looks good

[mohitanchlia]

I don't see any IP even though eth1 seems to be up. Here is some info:

Can someone please help me why I am not seeing any IP.

[root@localhost ~]# iwlist eth1 scanning|more
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:50:FB:B6:F7
ESSID:"lost"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Quality=92/100 Signal level=-38 dBm
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Extra: Last beacon: 32ms ago
Cell 02 - Address: 00:1C:10:4F:2F:1F
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eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Closet"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:11:50:FB:B6:F7
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:9438-C0F1-AE9D-9AB3-D484-80AC-56C9-3DE7-0AD6-1ECF-80FB-3424-9EDC-0102-4FF1-B3D5 Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=91/100 Signal level=-38 dBm Noise level=-88 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:1 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:5
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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:C6:E1:C0:47
inet addr:192.168.1.102 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::210:c6ff:fee1:c047/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4827 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4426 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4417699 (4.2 MiB) TX bytes:870229 (849.8 KiB)

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:CE4:9B:44
inet6 addr: fe80::213:ceff:fed4:9b44/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:133 errors:1 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:10738 (10.4 KiB) TX bytes:11701 (11.4 KiB)
Interrupt:23 Base address:0x4000 Memory:90301000-90301fff

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[root@localhost network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth1
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=00:13:ce:d4:9b:44
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
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What should I do?

[Lazydog]

eth1 is wireless. It is also DHCP. Is it connected to a wireless switch/AP? If it is connected does this wireless switch/AP provide DHCP? Without DHCP you are not going to see any IP Addresses. doesn't matter that the interface is up.

[mohitanchlia]

It's wireless card that used to automatically connect to SSID when I had windows on it. At that time using same router I was able to get the IP.

So I was thinking I should get the same connectivity when I installed linux on this laptop. How do I troubleshoot as to why I don't see IP? Other things look ok, but I am doing it for first time