Subject: Re: PowerBook/Wavelan/ad-hoc/DHCP ?
From: Paul J. Lucas (pjl@best.com)
Date: Mon Aug 28 2000 - 00:15:53 MDT
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Paul J. Lucas wrote:
> Has anybody gotten a PowerBook to do wireless ethernet via a
> Lucent Wavelan/IEEE board in ad-hoc mode plus DHCP? I'm running
> a 2.2.16 kernel, 3.1.19 of the PCMCIA package plus the powec-pc
> patches for endianness issues.
>
> /etc/pcmcia/config.opts contains:
>
> include memory 0x80000000-0x80ffffff
> include port 0x100-0x1ff
>
> module "wvlan_cs" opts "port_type=3"
>
> /etc/pcmcia/network.opts has:
>
> DHCP="y"
>
> The card gets recognized, the modules get loaded, wvlan0 shows
> up via an "ifconfig -a", but dhcpcd can't connect to the
> server. I've tried dhcpcd via eth0 and that works fine, so
> it's not DHCP.
I discovered that this particular DHCP server wants a hostname
specified via the -h option to dhcpcd.
Anyway, my WaveLAN card words with DHCP: woohoo! Results:
http://www.best.com/~pjl/personal/powerbook/wireless.html
- Paul
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