wireless connection

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 01:08:51PM -0400, j. daniel moylan wrote:
> john abreau writes: 
> > Of course, if you don't want to run your own internal DNS, you can always
> > hardwire ip addresses into dhcpd.conf:
> >
> >        host garbagescow {
> >                hardware ethernet 00:1B:77:xx:xx:xx ;
> >                fixed-address 192.168.0.3 ;
> >        }
> 
> i can't seem to find dhcpd.conf anywhere, probably not an
> ubuntu thing, but i did find /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
> 
> i looked at the man page for that and tried fiddling the
> alias and lease terms, fully expecting progress, but got
> nowhere.  it just keeps on coming up with 192.168.0.100
> 
> i've either got the wrong file, or i've entered the wrong
> stuff.
> 

you're confusing a client with a server. Install dhcpd-server.

-dsr-