[wplug] PCMCIA Wireless + DHCP

[Brian A. Seklecki]

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 22:09, Ryan W. Frenz wrote:
> 'dhclient eth0' gives 'eth0 not found'...
> the pcmcia scripts seem to be calling 'dhcpcd -d eth0'

-d keeps the program from daemon'izing.  Useful for debugging.

tcpdump -i eth0 -n 'port bootps || port bootpc' 

...would also be very insightful in this situation.

Hi everyone!
-lava

> 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