Re: 4.6-RELEASE and Aironet DHCP

Aron Silverton writes:
| Hi all,
| 
| I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, but I have a 4.6-RELEASE notebook 
| with an Aironet 350 that I can't seem to configure via DHCP.  Static 
| configuration works fine.  I am on a network using LEAP and I am able to 
| authenticate without any problems.  I seem to receive information from 
| the DHCP server as I have a /var/db/dhclient.leases, but my an0 
| interface does not configure an address.  If I run dhclient an0, the 
| best that I get is inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xFF00000000 . . .  I do get a 
| populated /etc/resolv.conf.
| 
| In my rc.conf, I have:
| 
| pccard_enable="YES"
| pccard_ifconfig="DHCP" (I have tried both with and without this.)
| ifconfig_an0="DHCP"
| 
| My SSID is currently set in rc.conf.local but I'll move it to 
| start_if.an0 later.
| 
| After logging in, I do the following:
| 
| ancontrol -i an0 -L <user_name>
| <password>
| 
| One time the interface took the IP address, but I can't figure out why. 
|   After trying another dhclient an0 to see what would happen, I lost the 
| address and haven't gotten it back.

Hmm, you don't say how the SSID is set in rc.conf.local.  You have some
ordering problems.  Setting pccard_ifconfig=DHCP is going to make dhclient
fire off before you get to logon via LEAP.  This is the order you need
to do things:
	set the SSID
	logon via LEAP
	dhclient
otherwise things could go bad due to dhclient getting upset that it never
gets a lease back.  Starting another dhclient while the other one is 
hanging around doesn't work.  I'd suggest taking pccard_ifconfig out
of /etc/rc.conf and do everything by hand initially and then probably 
make a script to do the right thing.  Doing the LEAP logon after the fact
is going to result in trouble.

Doug A.

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