Re: [Hampshire] Wireless quickstart?

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Author: Samuel Penn
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Wireless quickstart?
On Friday 09 February 2007 18:34, Vic wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> Does anyone have a favourite quickstart for WiFi?
>
> I've got my card recognised (via ndiswrapper), it can see the AP (gets the
> SSID), but doesn't actually do anything - no IP address, no route,
> nothing...


Do you need to run dhcp to get a lease? e.g., something like:

udhcpc wlan0

(assuming that you have udhcpc as your dhcp client).

At the very least, it should tell you if the DHCP side of things is working.

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