Re: The right way to do DHCP with wi/ed?

Emanuel Haupt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 07 Apr 2003 08:39:22 -0400
"Dan Langille" <[email protected]> wrote:

: What is the correct way to do DHCP with wi0?  I've been trying 
: various methods, but the only solution I've found is to do this:  
: 
: /etc/rc.conf:
: ifconfig_wi0="DHCP"
: pccard_enable="YES"
: dhcp_program=/tmp/foo
: 
: /tmp/foo:
: ( /sbin/dhclient -d $* & ) > /tmp/foo.out 2>&1
: 
: If I don't use /tmp/foo, dhclient hangs.  So far, the dicussion on 
: the ISC DHCP client list hasn't found a solution.  The lease is 
: granted, but wi0 never gets an IP addresses.  If interested, the 
: thread is at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=104950219300003&r=1&w=2
: 
: Ideas?
: 
: FreeBSD laptop.unixathome.org 4.8-RC FreeBSD 4.8-RC #7: Fri Apr  4
: 12:21:41 EST 2003 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP
: i386  but FWIW, the same problem occurred under 4.7-STABLE.

ifconfig_wi0="DHCP" should work. but first of all, you might want to
configure your WEP keys, frequency, porttype... you can do this with
wicontrol (man 8 wicontrol).

good luck.

emanuel
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