dhcp only works once on wifi card

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Mon Nov 13 17:54:58 PST 2006


On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:25:47AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Have a wifi card that dhcp's fine on startup, however, every time the
> AP drops off (say 15-45min), it loses it's ip adress, and never asks
> for a new one.  Adapter has "blah blah blah DCHP" in it's ifconfig
> entry in rc.conf, what am I missing?  Do I need to place
> dhclient_enable="YES" in rc.conf or something like that?  The man page
> for dhclient seems to assume it's always run from the command line,
> afaik, although the -b switch would indicate otherwise...

This is probably a bug in the driver's link state handling.  What type
of device is it?

-- Brooks
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