Hi there,
I want my notebook to be connected with a linksys wrt54gs. I use
slackware-11.0 and an intel wlan-card which works with the ipw-2200 driver
from linux 2.6.19.1. If I do a "dhclient eth1"
I get this:
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root@thinkpadomat:/home/simon# dhclient eth1
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on Socket/eth1
Sending on Socket/eth1
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
root@thinkpadomat:/home/simon#
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instead of this connecting to the router with a fixed ip works without
problems. Also using the other dhcp-program "dhcpcd" works perfect and
gives me a working ip-address.
But I need doing this with dhclient, because networkmanager needs this and I
want to use it for my networks.

It would be nice if someone of you can give me a little hint how to solve
this.

regards Thorsten

Thorsten Kolb wrote:
> instead of this connecting to the router with a fixed ip works without
> problems. Also using the other dhcp-program "dhcpcd" works perfect and
> gives me a working ip-address.
> But I need doing this with dhclient, because networkmanager needs this and I
> want to use it for my networks.

what "network manager" needs dhclient? anything a simple symlink could solve?

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Joost Kremers wrote:

> Thorsten Kolb wrote:
>> instead of this connecting to the router with a fixed ip works without
>> problems. Also using the other dhcp-program "dhcpcd" works perfect and
>> gives me a working ip-address.
>> But I need doing this with dhclient, because networkmanager needs this
>> and I want to use it for my networks.
>
> what "network manager" needs dhclient? anything a simple symlink could
> solve?
>

NetworkManager is an application which manages your networks (wlan, lan &
DSL) Its very nice program. See
http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/
It uses dhcdbd (some dbus-thing for dhclient). So a symlink can not help to
solve it.

Thorsten

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:49:01 +0100, Thorsten Kolb
<thorsten_kolb@urz.uni-hd.de> wrote:

>Joost Kremers wrote:
>
>> Thorsten Kolb wrote:
>>> instead of this connecting to the router with a fixed ip works without
>>> problems. Also using the other dhcp-program "dhcpcd" works perfect and
>>> gives me a working ip-address.
>>> But I need doing this with dhclient, because networkmanager needs this
>>> and I want to use it for my networks.
>>
>> what "network manager" needs dhclient? anything a simple symlink could
>> solve?
>>
>
>NetworkManager is an application which manages your networks (wlan, lan &
>DSL) Its very nice program. See
>http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/
>It uses dhcdbd (some dbus-thing for dhclient). So a symlink can not help to
>solve it.
>
>Thorsten

Did you create a real executable from the sample in /etc/dhcpc?
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buck

buck wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:49:01 +0100, Thorsten Kolb
> <thorsten_kolb@urz.uni-hd.de> wrote:
>
>>Joost Kremers wrote:
>>
>>> Thorsten Kolb wrote:
>>>> instead of this connecting to the router with a fixed ip works without
>>>> problems. Also using the other dhcp-program "dhcpcd" works perfect and
>>>> gives me a working ip-address.
>>>> But I need doing this with dhclient, because networkmanager needs this
>>>> and I want to use it for my networks.
>>>
>>> what "network manager" needs dhclient? anything a simple symlink could
>>> solve?
>>>
>>
>>NetworkManager is an application which manages your networks (wlan, lan &
>>DSL) Its very nice program. See
>>http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/
>>It uses dhcdbd (some dbus-thing for dhclient). So a symlink can not help
>>to solve it.
>>
>>Thorsten
>
> Did you create a real executable from the sample in /etc/dhcpc?
> --
> buck

As I said before, the program I want to use is dhclient specific. I do not
think that it can be used with dhcpc. The dhcdbd-site says that it has to
be used with dhclient.

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:43:17 +0100, Thorsten Kolb
<thorsten_kolb@urz.uni-hd.de> wrote:
>As I said before, the program I want to use is dhclient specific. I do not
>think that it can be used with dhcpc. The dhcdbd-site says that it has to
>be used with dhclient.

I tried to use dhclient and never could make it work. It compiled and
acted like it was dong OK but I never got an IP address with it.

I fail to believe that the software one uses to obtain an IP matters a
damn. Run this "special" program and tell us What Bad Thing Happens
when you use the "wrong" dhcp client software.
--
buck

buck wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:43:17 +0100, Thorsten Kolb
> <thorsten_kolb@urz.uni-hd.de> wrote:
>>As I said before, the program I want to use is dhclient specific. I do not
>>think that it can be used with dhcpc. The dhcdbd-site says that it has to
>>be used with dhclient.
>
> I tried to use dhclient and never could make it work. It compiled and
> acted like it was dong OK but I never got an IP address with it.
>
> I fail to believe that the software one uses to obtain an IP matters a
> damn. Run this "special" program and tell us What Bad Thing Happens
> when you use the "wrong" dhcp client software.
> --
> buck

Believe me it needs dhclient ... NetworkManager communicates over dbus with
dhclient and dhcpcd has not implemented this.
But however, i finaly get dhclient running!!! The slackbuild mades something
strange things, I compiled dhcp just with ./configure; make etc. and now it
works!!! Try it out, maybe in your case it was the same problem.

Thank you all very much - have a nice & wonderfull Christmas !!!


Thorsten

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:12:45 +0100, Thorsten Kolb wrote:

> The slackbuild mades something
> strange things, I compiled dhcp just with ./configure; make etc. and now it
> works!!! Try it out, maybe in your case it was the same problem.

I noticed exactly the same on Slackware 9.1 once, dhclient wouldn't work,
but worked very well as soon as I recompiled it.

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