[Clfs-support] Still No Internet

[Reimundo Heluani]

I think he means you need to authenticate to an AP before running dhcp  
on that interface. Something like iwconfig eth0 essid any for example

But I might have fallen in the lazyness of replying without reading  
the whole thing

R

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On Oct 22, 2009, at 7:35 PM, Dan McGhee <beesnees at grm.net> wrote:

> Joe Ciccone wrote:
>> Dan McGhee wrote:
>>
>>> I'm sorry, but this will take awhile to read.
>>>
>>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> When I run <dhclient wlan0>, I get:
>>>
>>> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
>>> ...this is repeated with interval 7, 11, 21, 14 and 3...
>>> No DHCPOFFERS received
>>> Sleeping
>>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> Thanks for wading through this.
>>>
>> <snip>
>> You have to connect to a wireless network first. There isn't any  
>> magical
>> auto detection / connections here. You have to do it yourself.
>>
> I think there's a disconnect between you and me. Yes, you've said  
> this before and this is what I thought I was doing. Maybe I'm being  
> obtuse here. If you mean manually configure my wireless devices so  
> that they can "connect" to my router, which is a dhcp server--or a  
> server in a "hot spot"--that's what I have tried to do. I have an  
> almost identical setup in an older laptop. There only are two  
> differences: the interface is a pcmcia card and there is no init  
> script for dhcp. The dhclient scripts for my wireless card and the  
> pcmcia card are identical.
>
> Given this, could you be a little more explicit when you say "you  
> have to do it yourself."
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
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