[ale] Still can't get wireless to work.

[Jim]

Geoffrey wrote:

>Jim wrote:
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>>Setting the ip address with ifconfig wlan0 192.168.2.52 ... worked 
>>fine.  It is now communicating.  I guess it's that dhcp won't work with 
>>this card. 
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>Do you have BOOTPROTO='dhcp' set in the device config?
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Yes,


Since it worked manually I proceeded to tear ifup appart and see what 
makes it tick.  While screwing around with that, I found a utility 
called ifup-dhcp.  Hey, nothing else works, so why not?

It worked.  Man ifup-dhcp does nothing.   I have no idea what it is, but 
all I know is that when I did a
ifup-dhcp wlan0 -o debug,auto
dhcp assigned an address to wlan0 .

Go figure, thanks everyone

Jim.






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