[driverloader] My wlan does not get an IP from DHCP

[Linuxant support]

Hi,

try to set "BOOTPROTO=dhcp".

Regards,

Jean-Simon Durand
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roberto" <roberto at dowit.net>
To: <driverloader at lists.linuxant.com>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 12:16 PM
Subject: [driverloader] My wlan does not get an IP from DHCP


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