Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-02 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Prinsier wrote: > How sure are you that wpa_supplicant is able to connect to your access > point? It can only do ip stuff (like acquiring an ip) once it's > connected (associated) to your ap. > > Run wpa_gui to verify. I am very sure that it is

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Mick
On Friday 01 June 2007 19:28, Alex Prinsier wrote: > Randy Barlow wrote: > > lappy786 ~ # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start > > * Starting eth1 > > * Starting wpa_supplicant on eth1 ... > > [ok] * Starting wpa_cli on eth1 ... > >

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Alex Prinsier
Randy Barlow wrote: > lappy786 ~ # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start > * Starting eth1 > * Starting wpa_supplicant on eth1 ... [ok] > * Starting wpa_cli on eth1 ... [ok] > * Backgrounding ... > > However, it seems to get

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Mick
On Friday 01 June 2007 17:57, Randy Barlow wrote: > On Thursday 31 May 2007 12:05, Randy Barlow wrote: [snip...] > RX packets:4 errors:1188 dropped:1488 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:8 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 >

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > The ipv6 address you see is the so-called link-local address, and is > automatically constructed by the network adapter based on its MAC > address; hence, it's not "acquired" from some server, and so it's > perfectly normal th

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
I can not help you with your problem, but... On Friday 1 June 2007 18:57, Randy Barlow wrote: > Strangely, it seems to aquire an ipv6 address. The ipv6 address you see is the so-called link-local address, and is automatically constructed by the network adapter based on its MAC address; hence

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thursday 31 May 2007 12:05, Randy Barlow wrote: > Howdy all! I'm having a tough time getting DHCP to work on my wireless > card. It's the intel 2200, and I am using wpa_supplicant with it. The > contents of my /etc/conf.d/net are: I've filed a bug report about this problem with a few more det

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Randy Barlow
On Friday 01 June 2007 04:10, Mick wrote: > You can switch off IPv6 in the kernel. I can, but I don't think that will solve the problem that I'm seeing. Other ideas? -- Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com "Oh me of little faith..." -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Mick
On Thursday 31 May 2007 20:55, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: > > and why I'm getting an IPv6 address? Thanks! > > Every link that is up gets a link-local ipv6 address which is used to > find and communicate with direct link partners. It probably starts with > fe80::. So don't worry, that's caused by the

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-05-31 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thursday 31 May 2007 14:52, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: > I had this problem once too, and my problem was that a file > /etc/conf.d/net.eth1 existed, which had config_eth1=("null") in it. The > statements in /etc/conf.d/net had no effect then. Maybe that's the same > issue here. No, that file doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-05-31 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
> and why I'm getting an IPv6 address? Thanks! > Every link that is up gets a link-local ipv6 address which is used to find and communicate with direct link partners. It probably starts with fe80::. So don't worry, that's caused by the ipv6 module and you don't "get" it, you basically just ha

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-05-31 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Randy Barlow schrieb: > Howdy all! I'm having a tough time getting DHCP to work on my wireless card. > > It's the intel 2200, and I am using wpa_supplicant with it. The contents of > my /etc/conf.d/net are: > > modules=( "wpa_supplicant" ) > config_eth1=( "dhcp" ) > wpa_supplicant_eth1="-Dwex

[gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-05-31 Thread Randy Barlow
Howdy all! I'm having a tough time getting DHCP to work on my wireless card. It's the intel 2200, and I am using wpa_supplicant with it. The contents of my /etc/conf.d/net are: modules=( "wpa_supplicant" ) config_eth1=( "dhcp" ) wpa_supplicant_eth1="-Dwext" The problem seems to be that DHCP