[wplug] PCMCIA Wireless + DHCP

Eric Fierke lupus at bearwolf.com
Tue Feb 3 17:36:26 EST 2004


if you have access to it, what do the logs say on your dhcp server?  is it
even seeing the request?

can you manually assign an ip to it and access your network?

Eric
who just last night got his 802.11g card working :)



On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Ryan W. Frenz wrote:

> 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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