[wplug] Wireless access point & dhcp
Brandon Kuczenski
brandon at 301south.net
Mon Feb 16 21:51:15 EST 2004
> Anyone using Linksys WAP11?
>
> I just got one, and it gets an IP address from my dhcp server (Mandrake's
> MNF.) However, my laptop doesn't get one. It does when connected with a
> cable.
>
> I don't know where to go to see what's wrong. The laptop (W2K, cisco
> wireless card) sees the wap. Keys are exchanged, etc. It just doesn't
> get an IP.
So do you have your wap's "uplink" or "WAN" plug connected to an ethernet
card on your server? For some reason, that didn't work for me. I am just
using my [D-Link] wap as a dumb-hub, with nothing plugged into its "WAN"
port. I can't remember exactly what my symptom was.
Anyways, when I did this, everything worked okay, except the wap always
specified *itself* as the gateway, rather than my server. I had to change
my laptop's wireless card config to "PeerDNS=no" and specify my gateway
and DNS manually.
I don't know if this relates to your problem or not. Just some
food-for-thought.
>
> TIA!
>
hth.
-Brandon
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