Strange networking problem-or I hate wireless
I have a home network of 2 computers running Slackware. Comp #1 is directly connected to the Linksys router and comp#2 is connected via WUSB11 wireless, USB card. Everything was working until a week ago when my wife came home after a power outage and found comp#2 down (no UPS on this one). On restarting, the card was recognized but I could not connect to the network. I finally figured out this was because dhcpcd had not started. I restarted manually and the network was up and running. Last night I was working on a startup script and I rebooted to see if it would work; this time the network card is seen but no dhcpcd and IT WILL NOT START manually. I enabled the dhcpcd log and I just get messages about "no response to ACK" . So, what is next??? (besides throwing away the wireless card?)
Any suggestions gratefully accepted,
Alan
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