Well, it works now. Re: WiFi with mandrake

[josephc at etards.net]

The 169 address indicates the absense of a successful DHCP request

-joe

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Duane Morin wrote:

> Can't put my finger on exactly what I did but I basically breadcrumbed my 
> way through the various ifup scripts and tested lots of env variables to
> make sure everything was being fed to iwconfig properly.  It appears that 
> wireless.opts is never being executed, which is interesting.  I also added 
> KEY= and CHANNEL= to my ifcfg-eth0 file.  
> 
> Also, that whole 169.x thing seems to be an IPv6 related thing.  The only 
> reference I could find in any of my scripts was in network-functions-IPv6, 
> where it assumes this address in some situations.  I also commented this 
> out (since 192.168.x.x was next in line).
> 
> Duane
> 
>  On 30 Jun 2003, Derek Atkins 
> wrote:
> 
> > Duane Morin <dmorin at lear.morinfamily.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Ok, I replaced my laptop's hard drive and while I was at it upgraded to 
> > > Mandrake 9.1.  I'm trying to get wireless working but something seems to 
> > > have changed.  On my old machine (Mandrake 8.x) I had an interface wlan0 
> > > configured, and kept eth0 for my Xircom ethernet card.
> > 
> > Yea, not surprising...
> > 
> > > Mandrake 9 seems to detect my wireless Netgear card, but wants to call it 
> > > eth0.  I can live with that.  The problem is that it's not working and I 
> > > can't just copy my old scripts from the other box because they're all on 
> > > wlan0.
> > 
> > M-x replace-string wlan0 eth0
> > 
> > > In particular, the setup wizard wants me to specify a bunch of wireless 
> > > parameters to be associated with the network device, such as NWID, FREQ 
> > > (but no CHANNEL, which I would have expected) and WEP KEY.  In particular 
> > > I know my wep key but don't know what format it wants me to type it in.
> > 
> > Are you actually using Ad-Hoc mode?  If you're in Managed Mode then you
> > should not need to specify the FREQ.
> > 
> > > I've been googling around for some help but haven't found anything yet.
> > > 
> > > Duane
> > 
> > -derek
> > 
> > 
> 
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