Henk Boom wrote: > On 06/02/07, Henk Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm much closer than I have been before. Following the LEAP example, I >> seem to manage to connect. iwconfig tells me I have an encryption key. >> The only issue now seems to be that I can't get dhcp working. Nothing >> relevant runs automatically, and when I run dhcpcd manually it times >> out. Then, after I have run dhcpcd, or if I just wait a while, when I >> do iwconfig it tells me that I an unassociated. . . >> >> I feel close, but I'm not quite there yet >.<. >> > > Wow, I hibernated the laptop (after iwconfig told me I was > unnasosiated), carried it out of the computer lab and onto another > floor, then woke it up. I ran /etc/init.d/net.eth1 one more time for > good measure (it complained that it had already been started). Then I > tried to ping google, and it worked! > > The only explanation I can think of for this is that the computer labs > where I made my last post had bad reception. > > Now I'm curious though, do I need to explicitly run a dhcp client, or > does wpa_supplicant handle all that for me?
if you run wpa_supplicant _through_ gentoo initscripts, they should run dhcp when wpa_supplicant associates with the AP (unless you define something else in config_XXXX=(...) ) yoyo -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
