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[ILUG] Wireless DHCP

[ILUG] Wireless DHCP

Michael Conry michael.conry at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 08:34:53 GMT 2005


> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 23:53:48 +0000, Rafael Muñoz Moreno Davila wrote:
> > I'm trying to make my wireless work, and I almost done it, I just doesn't seem
> > to be able to get an IP with DHCP.
> > What can be the problem?
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:15:39 +0000, Dave O Connor <doc at gmail.com> wrote:
> This could be because either your wireless network is filtering based
> on MAC address, if if you're using WEP, you have the WEP key wrong.

Or, if you're in fact setting up a whole network yourself, your DHCP
server may not be running on the wireless interface (but would be
happily serving on, for example, eth0).  On Debian, the appropriate
settings are in /etc/default/dhcp, they later get used as command line
arguments.

Michael



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