On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 00:27, Spundun Bhatt wrote: > Thanx Joshua, > what you said in your mail was all I needed. > Now I became more brave and tried with encryption. > this time I am getting the follosing messages and all sort of wierd > things happen. > sometimes the led keeps blinking, after I played once with the wlancfg-* > file that blinking stopped but still no connection. > When I insert the card.. the messages I get on > /var/log/everything/current are > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- <snip>
> Feb 20 00:16:27 [dhcpcd] timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server
> response
> Feb 20 00:16:27 [rc-scripts] Failed to bring wlan0 up
This means you don't have a DHCP server on your network...so what you'll
probably need to do is either set one up (which can be a pain) or
configure your wireless card to use a static IP address. There is an
example for doing this in /etc/conf.d/net, which I've pasted below:
iface_eth0="192.168.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0"
Also, here's what I use at home for my internal network:
iface_eth1="10.0.0.1 broadcast 10.0.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0"
You probably don't want to copy either of these verbatim, as your
network is probably setup different from mine or from the default. :)
Hope this helps.
-- Josh
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> if I do ifconfig.. I get
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:180 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:180 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:9000 (8.7 Kb) TX bytes:9000 (8.7 Kb)
>
> wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:DD:30:5E:1F
> UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:584 (584.0 b)
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0x100
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Also after a minut I got message on /var/log/everything/current
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Feb 20 00:23:16 [dhcpcd] timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server
> response
> Feb 20 00:23:16 [rc-scripts] Failed to bring wlan0 up
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Am i doing some common mistake over here?
> again... thanx for the response
> Spundun
>
> On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 22:58, Joshua J. Berry wrote:
> > You need to create yourself a net.wlan0 init script. Usually you can
> > just copy net.eth0 and add "need pcmcia" to the depend() section.
> >
> > You'll also need to setup your wlan0 interface in
> > /etc/conf.d/net...usually something like "iface_wlan0=dhcp" works just
> > fine.
> >
> > After that, I *believe* there is a way to get it to start automatically,
> > though I'm not sure (I always start it manually with
> > /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start on my laptop). I haven't actually had much
> > time to play around with my wireless configuration yet, so perhaps
> > someone else can jump in here and add the part I'm missing.
> >
>
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