[wplug] PCMCIA Wireless + DHCP
Ryan W. Frenz
rfrenz at andrew.cmu.edu
Tue Feb 3 22:09:17 EST 2004
'dhclient eth0' gives 'eth0 not found'...
the pcmcia scripts seem to be calling 'dhcpcd -d eth0'
could this be a misconfiguration?
Patrick Weber wrote:
>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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