Re: Wifi name

2008-08-27 Thread Patrik Flykt
Hi, On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 10:24 -0600, ext Jeffrey Barish wrote: I am still running Chinook. Sounds as if I need to upgrade. Do notice that the dummy network functionality is not yet identical to Chinook[1]. Cheers, Patrik [1] https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3306 --

Re: Wifi name

2008-08-26 Thread Patrik Flykt
Hi, On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 08:15 +0300, ext Kalle Valo wrote: The client host name appears as Nokia-N800-23-14 This is stored in /etc/hostname. icd got major overhaul (to put it mildly) in diablo, that might have an effect here. Starting with Diablo, ICd2 now sets the

Re: Wifi name

2008-08-26 Thread Kalle Valo
Patrik Flykt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: icd got major overhaul (to put it mildly) in diablo, that might have an effect here. Starting with Diablo, ICd2 now sets the DHCP hostname option if the device has a non-NULL hostname. If the above file is changed, the hostname is picked up in the next

Re: Wifi name

2008-08-26 Thread Jeffrey Barish
Patrik Flykt wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 08:15 +0300, ext Kalle Valo wrote: The client host name appears as Nokia-N800-23-14 This is stored in /etc/hostname. icd got major overhaul (to put it mildly) in diablo, that might have an effect here. Starting with Diablo,

Wifi name

2008-08-25 Thread Jeffrey Barish
My router reports that my N800 is connected by Wifi, but the name that it reports is unknown. Is there a way to assign a name by which the N800 will be known to the router? -- Jeffrey Barish ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org

Re: Wifi name

2008-08-25 Thread James Knott
Jeffrey Barish wrote: My router reports that my N800 is connected by Wifi, but the name that it reports is unknown. Is there a way to assign a name by which the N800 will be known to the router? It should be picking up the name from the router. You did set it there, didn't you? Also,

Re: Wifi name

2008-08-25 Thread Jeffrey Barish
John Holmblad wrote: who is the manufacturer of your router? Is it running the DHCP  service for your network? Actiontec. It is also my DSL modem. Qwest claims that it has custom modifications to enable it to work on their network. Yes, it is running DHCP. There are 6 devices connected to

Re: Wifi name

2008-08-25 Thread James Knott
Jeffrey Barish wrote: John Holmblad wrote: who is the manufacturer of your router? Is it running the DHCP service for your network? Actiontec. It is also my DSL modem. Qwest claims that it has custom modifications to enable it to work on their network. Yes, it is running

Re: Wifi name

2008-08-25 Thread Kalle Valo
ext John Holmblad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is possible that your DHCP service is not recognizing/processing the host name option parameter^1 in the DHCP request from the N800. I know for a fact that the Linksys RV series of routers, which do support an optional DHCP server, do