Here's an annoying problem that I can usually address by fiddling and a
random number of reboots, but maybe someone here has a real answer. I
have searched the archives, but didn't recognized the problem in any of
the listings.
SUSE 10.0
Notebook: IBM T41 with IBM wireless and wired nics
Desktops:
Dell GX240 with ethernet hard card (SUSE 10.0)
older Dell Dimension (Windows 2000)
Networked printer: Lexmark
Hub: Belkin 802.11b wireless
Problem: I need to ping, NFS, Samba, ssh, sftp, etc. all the various
systems on the network and access the internets.
I have set up the Belkin box for DHCP with "Forever" IP leasing.
This works for the hard-wired cards - systems always get the same IP
address, and often for the wireless. But frequently, the notebook
wireless card gets assigned an IP outside of the specified range.
If I set it to the desired static IP address, it "takes", but manually
specifing nameserver/router doesn't.
Doing this rebooting and going back to DHCP and rebooting several times
will often produce the desired results of the wireless nic getting its
permanantly leased, DHCP-assigned IP address.
Note, that when the IP addressed is assigned within the specified DHCP
range, it is always the correct one - the one the notebook was initially
assigned. But often the wireless, and only the wireless, gets an address
outside of the range.
TIA, ds
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Dennis E. Slice
Department of Anthropology
University of Vienna
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