On 7/23/09, Jeremy Chase <jeremych...@gmail.com> wrote: > David, > > You are right. The way I laid out the example it would go back to > dlink. For the sake > of argument assume that I have also edited /etc/hostname.iwi0 "dhcp > nwid attwifi", as that doesn't seem to work either. > > But, what you are saying to do is to use ifconfig to setup the network > connection > and then dhclient once you can get 'status: active' in ifconfig. The > problem I have is > that I can't reliably get ifconfig to get an active status. It does > work sometimes, but > for some reason it is not consistent. > > Jeremy
Hi Jeremy, iwi does seem to be a bit picky about changing access points without a reboot (I've though about replacing it on my laptop with another card), what usually works for me is the following sequence of commands: x41:fred ~> sudo ifconfig iwi0 down x41:fred ~> sudo ifconfig iwi0 nwid myaccesspoint nwkey mykey x41:fred ~> sudo ifconfig iwi0 scan x41:fred ~> sudo /sbin/dhclient iwi0 Doing the scan after changing settings but before issuing a dhclient seems to get iwi into an active state. HTH Fred
