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

[Roberto Lists]

Well...I took the firewall off to take one variable out. And this showed
up on me logs (tail -f /var/log/messages):

Jan  3 21:31:58 linux dhcpcd[3399]: broadcasting DHCP_REQUEST for
192.168.2.100
Jan  3 21:32:08 linux dhcpcd[3399]: timed out waiting for DHCP_ACK
response
Jan  3 21:32:08 linux dhcpcd[3399]: broadcasting DHCP_DISCOVER

That IP is the one that I was getting with the madwifi drivers under 
Mandrake. But as you can see here the IP is still not getting assign.

My ifconfig:

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:150 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 current ifcfg-wlan0:

BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
MTU=''
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='onboot'
DHCLIENT_MODIFY_RESOLV_CONF='yes'
DHCLIENT_SET_DEFAULT_ROUTE='yes'
DHCLIENT_PRIMARY_DEVICE='yes'
UNIQUE=''
WIRELESS_ESSID='Any'
WIRELESS_KEY=''
WIRELESS_MODE='Managed'
WIRELESS_NICK='SuseLinux'
WIRELESS_NWID=''


It feels like this is closer than ever....but it is not happening!!!!  I
just don't know what else to look for.

Again,  any help is more than welcome, and thanks again to those who
stopped and offered some already.

Roberto

On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 04:31, Urs Mueller wrote:
> Roberto Lists sagte:
> >
> > The AP is the DHCP server.
> >
> 
> I did not see any dhcp-messages in the log. Are you sure, that
> dhcp is activated on the AP. What kind of AP is it? Am I right,
> that the AP is AP and also Router to the internet?
> Are you receiving this "email warnings" that along the long
> have been sent?
> 
> About the *smurf* you may watch:
> http://cs.baylor.edu/~donahoo/NIUNet/smurf.html (or other
> ressources you may find with your favorite search-engine).
> 
> > The DHCP gives a wierd message about 192.168.2.104  (that is the my
> > laptops wired Ethernet,  I will shoot the details as soon as I can get
> > the to the log.)  But regardless that should not be affecting the
> > wireless card.
> 
> Not the solution, but you may try to set your card to a fixed-
> adress in the network 192.168.2.255 (eg 192.168.2.110 /
> 255.255.255.0).
> 
> > If I do ' ifdown eth0 '  (the Ethernet) and then turn the wlan on...I
> > still don't get an IP.
> >
> > Is there anything else I could do or check?
> 
> The command for manually up/down with dhcp on SuSE is:
> ifdown-dhcp "interface" and
> ifup-dhcp "interface"
> 
> eg:
> ifdown-dhcp wlan0
> 
> This does not only a up/down of the card, but sends also the
> apropriate commands to the dhcp.
> 
> cu, Urs Mueller
> 
> 
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