[wplug] PCMCIA Wireless + DHCP

Patrick Weber paw160 at psu.edu
Tue Feb 3 22:31:14 EST 2004


Sounds like a driver problem?  Not sure.

-----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 10:09 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] PCMCIA Wireless + DHCP

'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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