DHCPclient issues with wireless

[Scot Hetzel]

On 12/26/07, Nathan Butcher <n-butcher at fusiongol.com> wrote:
> Updated to 7.0-PRERELEASE yesterday.
>
> I have a Ralink chipset USB wireless adaptor. It gets the ural driver as
> expected. Typically I connect it with dhcpclient to a completely open
> wireless access point. dhcpclient is good enough to find the first ssid
> it gets and sets me up with a DHCP lease to use dhcp with it.
> All I needed to do was issue "dhcpclient ural0"
>
> This behaviour seems to have changed in PRERELEASE. dhcplcient simply
> tells me "ural0: no link...."
>
> Here's the interesting thing though. I can manually set the ipaddress,
> netmask, ssid, and default route of the system and "cheat" my way into
> network access without requiring a dhcp lease.
>
> I assume that there's been some change in dhcpclient which has upset
> it's normal behaviour, whereas the ural driver still works (more or less
> - it often "times out" randomly)
>
What does 'ifconfig ural0' show before you issue 'dhcpclient ural0'?

Does it show that ural0 is associated with your access point?

If it doesn't show that you are associated, does a 'ifconfig ural0
ssid <ssid of AP>' before the dhcpclient allow you to get an IP
address?

Scot