[wplug] PCMCIA Wireless + DHCP

[Ryan W. Frenz]

I'm pretty sure the driver's good..I've used the same one in other 
distros with the same kernel.  The problem is with DHCP I believe...I'm 
associated with the access point (I get valid, updated output from 
'iwconfig'), but every time I try to run DHCP I just get 'timed out 
waiting for a valid DHCP server response'.

Patrick Weber wrote:

>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
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>'dhclient eth0' gives 'eth0 not found'...
>the pcmcia scripts seem to be calling 'dhcpcd -d eth0'
>could this be a misconfiguration?
>
>Patrick Weber wrote:
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>>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
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>correct
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>>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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