Re: dhcp client on senao card

Actually, thanks to Drew, I found I was making a syntax error.  Once I 
started the daemon correctly, it worked fine.  I was concerned about 
the hostap driver, but it doesn't seem to matter.

Mike


On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 
[email protected] wrote:

> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 15:13:55 -0800
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [BAWUG] dhcp client on senao card
> 
> From: mike sleczkowski <[email protected]> asked,
>
>> Ok, this one's driving me crazy (a short drive at that...)
>> I'm running 2 senao Prism cards with HostAP drivers on RH9 linux.  One
>> card is should pick up a signal from SFLAN, and get assigned a dhcp lease.
>> The other card functions fine as an AP, utilizing HostAP drivers and
>> assigning dhcp leases via dhcpd. For some reason, the client card has
>> never picked up a dhcp lease, regardless of which AP I associate with.
>>
>> My question: could there be a problem with binding HostAP drivers and
>> using dhclient, or can I not run both a dhclient and a dhcp server on the
>> same host?  Has anyone else attempted this?
>>
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> I don't think the hostap driver can pick up dhcp offers.
> Try another driver, http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/
> Hostap is only for "master mode". You need to set your card to "managed mode".
>
> After installing the above driver use the commands,
>
> wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=sflan?? authtype=opensystem
> dhclient wlan0
>
> To get an ip address.
>
> Barry
>
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