Re: Problem obtaining network lease automatically

"Justin Patrin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.openzaurus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/22/06, GROG! (Jeff Howie) <[email protected]> wrote:
> GPE 3.5.4.1.release C860 (boxer)
>
> Hey all. I've noticed that I always have to run 'udhcpc -n' to obtain
> a network lease when using either my wifi, nic or modem card. Is there
> a reason that the network settings (ifup?) doesn't do that
> auto-magically? Here's my eth0 section out of my
> /etc/network/interfaces:
>
>     iface eth0 inet static
>         wireless_mode xxxxxxx
>         wireless_essid xxxxxxx
>         wireless_key xxxxxxxxxxx
>         wireless_channel x
>         gateway 10.0.0.1
>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>         address 10.0.0.199
>

Yeah....you set it to a static IP so it's using a static IP. Make it
something like this:

     iface eth0 inet dhcp
         wireless_mode xxxxxxx
         wireless_essid xxxxxxx
         wireless_key xxxxxxxxxxx
         wireless_channel x


> Another annoying thing about this is that initially ifconfig reports
> my address as requested (10.0.0.199), but after I run udhcpc it gets
> reassigned my the gateway (currently 10.0.0.187).
>
> I never had to do this in 3.5.4.1.rc4. What am I missing?  thks
>


-- 
Justin Patrin

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