Problem with setting up dhcp and wireless networking?

[Robert Kennedy]

Ted,

I fixed /etc/dhclient/conf.  Now dhclient will find the script.

But when I run dhclient ath0, I still don't get an IP.

Here is the output:

root# 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
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
Trying medium "-link0 -link1 -link2" 1
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
Trying medium "link0 link1" 0
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
Trying medium "-link0 -link1 -link2" 1
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
Trying medium "link0 link1" 0
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
Trying medium "-link0 -link1 -link2" 1
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
Trying medium "link0 link1" 0
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
Trying medium "-link0 -link1 -link2" 1
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
root at frugalware:~#

root#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:0 errors:491 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:491
          TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:200
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:2966 (2.8 Kb)
          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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Any ideas?

Rob


>From: Ted Lemon <mellon at fugue.com>
>Reply-To: dhcp-users at isc.org
>To: dhcp-users at isc.org
>CC: "Robert Kennedy" <amtor at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Problem with setting up dhcp and wireless networking?
>Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:31:04 -0700
>
>You need to specify ath0 to exclude eth1.   dhclient-script is what 
>configures
>your interface; what's going on here is that you're getting an IP address,
>but your client script isn't configuring the address on the interface.   So
>you need to make sure you have a valid client script installed, which, at
>present, you apparently do not.
>