Re: DHCP with wifi (wi0)?

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 10:11:50AM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> ssid. I should point out that in our product, we've written our own 
> network script from scratch. What we found was that when you set the ssid 

Any chance of posting your script on the list?  TIA

> your ifconfig.wi0 file) and so dhclient would often fail. So we set up 
> ssid and nwkey, sleep for a while, check ifconfig for status: active, if 
> not present ifconfig down and up and then go back to the sleep. We repeat 

The only experience I have is with WindowsXP, and it seems to take as much
as 30 seconds or more to establish a connection.  Sometimes I start the Web
browser and it fails.  It always seems to work after closing the browser
and restarting it, though.  I'm thinking I might have problems like you
describe.

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