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dhclient not working

Hi all, I have a installed the madwifi-ng drivers for my netgear wg511t card. I've set it up in ad-hoc mode and I connects to another windows pc (which has ICS enabled). The windows icons says I have connected; signal strength excellent...
The problem is that the command "dhclient ath0" returns the following:

Code:

Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1

Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.

All rights reserved.

For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP



ath0: not found



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exiting.

Help as to why the dhcp client is not functioning.

Two things...First, have a look at the output of iwconfig to make sure that the card is ther. Second, if this is a stock Slackware box, usd dhcpcd instead of dhclient.

Ok I did use dhcpcd as well and was in fact issued an ip address. I thought it was dhclient not working. But thats not the problem. I could not ping the other pc. So I reverted to static ips
PC(ICS)1.1.1.1-->slackbox1.1.1.117

Like I said the icons indicate excellenct connectivity but I can't ping whatsoever. Don't understand why.

Code:

root@SOL:~# iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.



eth0      no wireless extensions.



wifi0    no wireless extensions.



sit0      no wireless extensions.



ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"sol"  Nickname:"SOL"

          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Cell: 02:0F:B5:EB:4A:C0

          Bit Rate=11 Mb/s  Tx-Power:19 dBm  Sensitivity=0/3

          Retry:off  RTS thr:off  Fragment thr:off

          Encryption key:3132-3334-3536-6338-3930  Security mode:restricted

          Power Management:off

          Link Quality=22/94  Signal level=-73 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm

          Rx invalid nwid:2  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0

          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0  Missed beacon:0



root@SOL:~# ifconfig

ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:B5:EB:4A:C0

          inet addr:1.1.1.117  Bcast:1.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0

          inet6 addr: fe80::20f:b5ff:feeb:4ac0/64 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:77 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:300 (300.0 b)  TX bytes:9334 (9.1 Kb)



lo        Link encap:Local Loopback

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:16002 (15.6 Kb)  TX bytes:16002 (15.6 Kb)



wifi0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:B5:EB:4A:C0

          inet6 addr: fe80::20f:b5ff:feeb:4ac0/64 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:16054 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:9063

          TX packets:3670 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:199

          RX bytes:1095616 (1.0 Mb)  TX bytes:182192 (177.9 Kb)

          Interrupt:11 Memory:e8b80000-e8b90000



root@SOL:~# route

Kernel IP routing table

Destination    Gateway        Genmask        Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface

1.0.0.0        *              255.0.0.0      U    0      0        0 ath0

loopback        *              255.0.0.0      U    0      0        0 lo

default        *              0.0.0.0        U    0      0        0 ath0

root@SOL:~#

you need to set the default gw. (if the windows box is going to share the connection, then it will be the default gw) man route. (i am a bit confused as to why you try to use dhclient for an ad-hoc connection..)

You need dhcp for ICS
Actually the problem was two fold:
1-Windows was messed up: I had to download this winsockfix app to reset all winxp network settings
2-The madwifi driver as of 22/12/2005 is broken for ad-hoc.
Have to wait till that gets resolved.

hrm, i seem to remember running nat on my box without dhcp..