[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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