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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Wlan0 dhcp setup
From: "naturalwatt" <>
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:25:55 -0000
I've had problems with this, so maybe my experiences will help.

Look in the /etc/init.d/network file.  This is the one that loops around, 
reading 
/etc/sysconfig/network_cfg and ifcfg-XXX files.

If there isn't one there, create a file ifcfg_wlan0, using ifcfg_eth0 as 
inspiration.  All you 
should need is
DEVICE=wlan0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ENABLE=yes 

As you can see from the script 'network', it will use /sbin/udhcp to get an IP 
address is the 
BOOTPROTO variable is set to dhcp.

But the problem I had was that it didn't work.  It seemed to take too long to 
get the 
interface up so that udhcp timed out.  I inserted 'sleep 5' delays after 
'ifip_function' and 
although it slowed down boot times by 10 seconds (there are two interfaces - 
eth0 and 
wlan0) it now worked.

Hope this helps,

Martin
--- In  "osmicadu" <> wrote:
>
> --- In  Triffid Hunter <triffid_hunter@> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, osmicadu wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Can somebody tell me how to setup dhcp on my wlan0 device. I am using
> > > TS-7250 with Iogear stick the driver I am using is zd_b.o and I have
> > > no problems with it.
> > >
> > > The problem is that after I get the wlan0 up with:
> > >
> > > ifconfig wlan0 up
> > >
> > > it does not get an IP address over dhcp. Now how do I start the dhcp.
> > 
> > you need a dhcp client. ifconfig and friends have nothing to do with
> dhcp.
> > 
> > I've had trouble compiling dhcp clients for my ts-7250, so I went with 
> > static settings.
> >
> 
> 
> but dhcp works ok with eth0 network interface so what is the problem
> with wireless it is simply a different interface wlano?
>





 
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