[wplug] PCMCIA Wireless + DHCP

[Ryan W. Frenz]

Resolved.  I compiled an older version of the driver and disabled my 
firewall, and now I can pull an IP.  I'm pretty sure the problem was the 
driver, though, because I wasn't blocking any interesting ports in my 
old firewall config.

Ryan W. Frenz wrote:

> 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
>>
>> '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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