[wplug] PCMCIA Wireless + DHCP

[Patrick Weber]

Try "dhclient eth0" or appropriate device.  If that doesn't seem to
behave then take a look at your firewall settings in
/etc/sysconfig/iptables make sure you aren't blocking DHCP.

-Pat Weber
paw160 at psu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
Ryan W. Frenz
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 3:12 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: [wplug] PCMCIA Wireless + DHCP

I'm getting weirdness trying to setup my wireless card to connect via 
DHCP.  When I bring up the card I don't get any error messages, but I 
also don't pull an IP.  /sbin/ifconfig gives:

eth0   Link encap:Ethernet   HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
           UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST   MTU:1500
Metric:1
           RX packets:276   errors:0   dropped:0   overruns:0   frame:0
           TX packets:4   errors:0   dropped:0   overruns:0   frame:0
           collisions:0   txqueuelen:100
           RX bytes:0   (0.0 b)   TX bytes:2360   (2.3 Kb)
           Interrupt:3    Base address:0x100


/sbin/iwconfig gives:

eth0   ATMEL REVE    ESSID:"CMU"
           Mode:Managed   Channel:6   Access Point: 00:06:25:71:94:33
           Bit Rate:11Mb/s
           RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
           Encryption key:off
           Link Quality:40   Signal level:100   Noise level:0
           Rx invalid nwid:0   Rx invalid crypt:0   Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0   Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0


Finally, 'cat /var/log/messages' gives:

cardmgr[1346] socket 1: Belkin F5D6020
cardmgr[1346] executing: 'modprobe pcmf502re'
cardmgr[1346] executing: './network start eth0'
cardmgr[1346] + /sbin/dhcpcd -d eth0 >/dev/null 2>&1


In my limited knowledge, these all seem correct (that's even the correct

ESSID and Access Point.  Yet, I have no IP and no access.  Anyone have 
any idea what's going on?  I'm running a standard install of Slack 9.1 
on a ThinkPad with the 'pcmf502re' drivers compiled as modules.

Ryan
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