No IP Address while Using DHCP
The system spec is SUSE 10 running on a Dell Inspiron 1200 with a old Compaq wireless card.
The wireless card is recognized by Linux. No problem there. No need for ndiswrapper. While the laptop is booting up, I notice a message saying "DHCP client not running". However, after logging in, I do a "ps aux | grep dhcp" and get the following: /sbin/dhcpcd -C -D -K -N -t 999999 -h Inspiron1200 -c /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/dhcpcd-hook wlan0 My question is do I have a dhcp client running or not? The problem is I am not getting a dynamic IP address from my router. I have to use a static IP. Please help with some hints. Thank you. |
Have you tried running dhcpcd after startup?
Code:
dhcpcd -d -t 10 wlan0 |
Thank you for your reply.
By trialing and erroring, I am finally able to do dynamic IP by doing the following steps: 1. Uninstalling wap_supplicant. Suse 10.0 installed and ran wap_supplicant by default. I don't have WAP, only WEP. Before the uninstallation, I had to do "iwconfig wlan0 essid string key string" manually to get a connection with my router. At this point I still had to do static IP. 2. Do "route add default gateway GatewayIPAddress" to finally be able to do dynamic IP. |
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