Re: wpa_supplicant and dhclient

2008-09-19 Thread Dominique Dumont
Urs Thuermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As Andrei wrote, read /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/README.Debian. There you'll find everything explained how to use roaming with DHCP or static addresses and more. I understand better now. Thanks Thierry and you for the explanations. In fact, I needed

Re: wpa_supplicant and dhclient

2008-09-19 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 19 September 2008 10:53:39 Dominique Dumont wrote: Urs Thuermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As Andrei wrote, read /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/README.Debian. There you'll find everything explained how to use roaming with DHCP or static addresses and more. I understand better

Re: wpa_supplicant and dhclient

2008-09-16 Thread Dominique Dumont
Thierry Chatelet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 15 September 2008 14:36:01 Dominique Dumont wrote: Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. Can wpa_supplicant and dhclient talk to each other so that dhclient doesn't start to send DHCP requests before the WPA connection

Re: wpa_supplicant and dhclient

2008-09-16 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 16 September 2008 16:41:53 Dominique Dumont wrote: Thierry Chatelet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 15 September 2008 14:36:01 Dominique Dumont wrote: Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. Can wpa_supplicant and dhclient talk to each other so that dhclient doesn't

Re: wpa_supplicant and dhclient

2008-09-16 Thread Urs Thuermann
Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try setting 'CONCURRENCY=startpar' in /etc/init.d/rc, but do read the notes before. Interesting to know, but I didn't need this, since your other suggestion below also solves the boot delay. Using wpa-roam, ifup returns quickly and the boot process

Re: wpa_supplicant and dhclient

2008-09-16 Thread Urs Thuermann
Dominique Dumont [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No. DHCP is not accepted in roaming mode. Where did you get that from I tried and I got an explicit error message ;-) Only manual mode is accepted. As Andrei wrote, read /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/README.Debian. There you'll find

wpa_supplicant and dhclient

2008-09-13 Thread Urs Thuermann
. Then ifup automatically starts wpa_supplicant and dhclient to set up the interface. But dhclient will not be able to get a configuration by DHCP and waits for a number of intervalls which causes quite a long delay in boot time. Then ifup returns and the boot process continues, while wpa_supplicant

Re: wpa_supplicant and dhclient

2008-09-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
/init.d/rc, but do read the notes before. 2. Can wpa_supplicant and dhclient talk to each other so that dhclient doesn't start to send DHCP requests before the WPA connection is established but then after connection sends its requests in short intervalls? I think the roaming mode might