[wplug] PCMCIA Wireless + DHCP

[Ryan W. Frenz]

Yeah, the card is registered -- it's an old card that's worked on Slack 
9.0, Fedora, and Mandrake (with the instructions at 
http://www.houseofcraig.net/belkin_howto.php).  That's why this is 
frustrating.  I don't have access to the dhcp server -- it's CMU's 
wireless network.  I'm getting no errors on startup or doing ./network 
start eth0.  When I try to ping I get "Network is unreachable".  On 
startup, after the card is recognized, I get "dhcpcd[..] broadcasting 
DHCP_DISCOVER, then after that no errors, but no other messages either. 

Still confused,

Ryan

Eric Fierke wrote:

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