Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-02 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Prinsier wrote: How sure are you that wpa_supplicant is able to connect to your access point? It can only do ip stuff (like acquiring an ip) once it's connected (associated) to your ap. Run wpa_gui to verify. I am very sure that it is

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Mick
On Thursday 31 May 2007 20:55, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: and why I'm getting an IPv6 address? Thanks! Every link that is up gets a link-local ipv6 address which is used to find and communicate with direct link partners. It probably starts with fe80::. So don't worry, that's caused by the ipv6

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Randy Barlow
On Friday 01 June 2007 04:10, Mick wrote: You can switch off IPv6 in the kernel. I can, but I don't think that will solve the problem that I'm seeing. Other ideas? -- Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com Oh me of little faith... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thursday 31 May 2007 12:05, Randy Barlow wrote: Howdy all! I'm having a tough time getting DHCP to work on my wireless card. It's the intel 2200, and I am using wpa_supplicant with it. The contents of my /etc/conf.d/net are: I've filed a bug report about this problem with a few more

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
I can not help you with your problem, but... On Friday 1 June 2007 18:57, Randy Barlow wrote: Strangely, it seems to aquire an ipv6 address. The ipv6 address you see is the so-called link-local address, and is automatically constructed by the network adapter based on its MAC address;

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: The ipv6 address you see is the so-called link-local address, and is automatically constructed by the network adapter based on its MAC address; hence, it's not acquired from some server, and so it's perfectly normal that,

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Mick
On Friday 01 June 2007 17:57, Randy Barlow wrote: On Thursday 31 May 2007 12:05, Randy Barlow wrote: [snip...] RX packets:4 errors:1188 dropped:1488 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:8 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Alex Prinsier
Randy Barlow wrote: lappy786 ~ # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start * Starting eth1 * Starting wpa_supplicant on eth1 ... [ok] * Starting wpa_cli on eth1 ... [ok] * Backgrounding ... However, it seems to get stuck

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Mick
On Friday 01 June 2007 19:28, Alex Prinsier wrote: Randy Barlow wrote: lappy786 ~ # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start * Starting eth1 * Starting wpa_supplicant on eth1 ... [ok] * Starting wpa_cli on eth1 ... [ok] *

[gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-05-31 Thread Randy Barlow
Howdy all! I'm having a tough time getting DHCP to work on my wireless card. It's the intel 2200, and I am using wpa_supplicant with it. The contents of my /etc/conf.d/net are: modules=( wpa_supplicant ) config_eth1=( dhcp ) wpa_supplicant_eth1=-Dwext The problem seems to be that DHCP isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-05-31 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Randy Barlow schrieb: Howdy all! I'm having a tough time getting DHCP to work on my wireless card. It's the intel 2200, and I am using wpa_supplicant with it. The contents of my /etc/conf.d/net are: modules=( wpa_supplicant ) config_eth1=( dhcp ) wpa_supplicant_eth1=-Dwext The

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-05-31 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
and why I'm getting an IPv6 address? Thanks! Every link that is up gets a link-local ipv6 address which is used to find and communicate with direct link partners. It probably starts with fe80::. So don't worry, that's caused by the ipv6 module and you don't get it, you basically just have

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-05-31 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thursday 31 May 2007 14:52, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: I had this problem once too, and my problem was that a file /etc/conf.d/net.eth1 existed, which had config_eth1=(null) in it. The statements in /etc/conf.d/net had no effect then. Maybe that's the same issue here. No, that file doesn't