[driverloader] My wlan does not get an IP from DHCP
Roberto
roberto at dowit.net
Fri Jan 2 11:16:37 EST 2004
Good Morning from Chicago!
I have been trying to install a wireless network for a while under suse
9 pro, that I bought a few weeks ago. I'm having trouble getting my
wireless card working. I had it working on madrake using madwifi
drivers.
In any case after trying madwifi (downloaded and the one that comes in
the system), I never got and IP trough dhcp, nor I would be able to
connect setting the parameters manually. So, I've decided to try
linuxant driverloader with the same success rate, everything works card
gets recognize, I can " iwlist wlan0 scan " and check my environment,
iwconfig shows my card properly connected, and ifconfig shows my card,
but without IP address:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:41:AD:D3:21
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:7 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
this is my ifcfg_wlan0:
BOOTPROTO='static'
MTU=''
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='onboot'
DHCLIENT_MODIFY_RESOLV_CONF='yes'
DHCLIENT_SET_DEFAULT_ROUTE='yes'
DHCLIENT_PRIMARY_DEVICE='yes'
UNIQUE=''
WIRELESS_ESSID='OhrockNet'
WIRELESS_KEY=''
WIRELESS_MODE='Ad-hoc'
WIRELESS_NICK=''
WIRELESS_NWID=''
I also tried setting the mode as Managed, same result.
I read somewhere that ISC dhclient worked better that dhcpcd, so I did
try changing them, if exactly the same result.
I also went out and bought a different card with a different chipset
supported by linuxant driveloader, and to my dismay I got to the same
point.
I think that this is something related to suse...but I don't know where
to look of how to troubleshoot the problem any further.
Any suggestions, advise, etc will be more than welcome.
Roberto
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