Problem with setting up dhcp and wireless networking?

Robert Kennedy amtor at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 17 15:55:56 UTC 2006


I am trying to get wireless networking up and running.  I am able to connect 
to the router but it appears that I am not being assigned an address by 
dhcp.

Here is the output:

root at frugalware:~# dhclient ath0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

eth1: unknown hardware address type 24
execve (/etc/dhclient-script, ...): No such file or directory
eth1: unknown hardware address type 24
Listening on LPF/ath0/00:90:96:76:13:f9
Sending on   LPF/ath0/00:90:96:76:13:f9
Sending on   Socket/fallback
execve (/etc/dhclient-script, ...): No such file or directory
DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
execve (/etc/dhclient-script, ...): No such file or directory
bound to 192.168.1.3 -- renewal in 1515 seconds.
root at frugalware:~#




root at frugalware:~# ifconfig
ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:96:76:13:F9
          inet6 addr: fe80::290:96ff:fe76:13f9/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3 errors:19 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:19
          TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:200
          RX bytes:1222 (1.1 Kb)  TX bytes:684 (684.0 b)
          Interrupt:193 Memory:e0fc0000-e0fd0000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:9680 (9.4 Kb)  TX bytes:9680 (9.4 Kb)

I am perplexed.  When I do a "iwconfig ath0", it shows that I am conncted.  
It also shows the right encryption key.

Any ideas on what may be going on and how to fix it?

Rob




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