[TriLUG] using dhcp with a wireless card

[Patrick Boyer]

I don't know if this would work in SuSE 9.1 (I'm using Gentoo), but you can try:

# ifconfig eth0 down
# iwconfig eth0 essid myessid channel mychannel key off
# ifconfig eth0 up
# dhcpcd eth0

Insert the university's values for 'myessid' and 'mychannel'. Good luck.

Pat Boyer


On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 20:19:09 -0400, stan briggs <stan at stanbriggs.com> wrote:
> william,
> 
> my success (admittedly with rh9) was to boot the machine without a card
> installed, copy the ifcfg-eth0-location file to ifcfg-eth0, insert the
> card, and then '/etc/init.d/network start'. a crude work-around but it
> worked for me.
> 
> script available to manage locations, present a menu to you, and do the
> cfg'ing.
> 
> stan
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of William Villalba
> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 8:10 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: [TriLUG] using dhcp with a wireless card
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I am using a wireless card--Orinoco silver--with Suse 9.1. I have it set
> 
> restricted at home with a 64 wep key. I am trying to set it at the
> university without overwriting my home settings. Everything seems to
> work
> fine, but when I do #dhcpcd eth0, the card shuts down. For some reason I
> 
> cannot make dhcp to work. I have registered the card with the dhcp
> account
> at UNC, so it provides an ip--I can see that it assigns one in Windows.
> 
> Does any one knows how to configure two different setting in two
> different
> places using dhcp?
> Thanks in advance...
> 
> william
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