See below. At 08:50 AM 5/30/02 -0500, Homer Parker wrote: > Having a bit of trouble getting my wireless card to be the external >interface (wireless ISP).. Any pointers, tips, tricks, etc appreciated.. >I'm currently trying to get everything reversed so eth1 is external, but >that seems to be a bandaid approach... Also having another 'little' >problem (asides from forgetting to go to bad last night ;).. On bootup, >the dhclient is trying to get an IP address, but doesn't succeed.. I don't >see it's requests in the logs for the dhcp server... But, once it's >booted, if I log in and run '/etc/init.d/dhclient restart', it comes up >with an IP just fine... This is through the wireless interface... Any >ideas?
From other recent reports on the list, a problem with wireless interfaces *seems* to be the amount of time they take to initialize. This leads to your DHCP client trying to get a lease via the wireless interface before it completes the initialization process. Of course, later the initialization is complete, so you can get a lease successfully from the command line. I *think* the proposed solution was simply to put a delay into the init sequence somewhere ... but you'd do better to check the list archive for the details than to rely on my memory. As to the interface order ... the usual approach (at least when the two NICs use different modules, as would surely be the case here) is to reverse the order in which the modules load (that is, change their order in /etc/modules). Since you don't say (at least not in the body of your message) what you've tried, I don't know if this suggestion is helpful or is something you tried already. -- -----------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
