[indiana-discuss] [laptop-discuss] Indiana Atheros DHCP Problems

[Shawn Walker]

On Jan 17, 2008 10:32 PM, Quaker Fang <Quaker.Fang at sun.com> wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
>
> >On Jan 17, 2008 8:50 PM, Judy Chen <Judy.Chen at sun.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> ...
> >>
> >>I cc'ed Quaker who may have more detailed info on this.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Okay, I've gotten farther. I managed to manually configure my wireless
> >interface w/ WPA enabled. I don't know why dhcp won't work, but that's
> >something I'm willing to debug if someone will tell me where to look.
> >
> >
> Right, static IP can work, but DHCP can't, the root cause is
> SUNWcry package missed.
> If you have interest, you can see some threads I have explained this before.

Can you explain why SUNWcry causes dhcp to not work?

I am connected via WPA/PSK-TKIP so why can't dhcp work?

Unfortunately, there are so many threads, it has been difficult to
sort out what is what.

Most of them are from early last year too, so its hard to know what is
valid and what is not.

> >I manually configured my interface thusly (and it works, I'm posting
> >from my Indiana-ized Laptop right now :)):
> >
> >
> You can work with static IP, but you may lose your connection
> periodically (depends on the
> configuration of your AP), the root is missed SUNWcry too.

Hrm. Well, I haven't lost my connection once in a few hours. So, my AP
must be configured right (WRT54G).

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben