On Friday 26 January 2007 18:53, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> When watching the messages log, I see DHCPDISCOVER requests sent to >> 255.255.255.255 on a network restart, and they fail after SoftMac says >> its Associated, I assume with the wap11 access point sitting about 20" >> away since the MAC addresses of the wap11 are correctly displayed in >> the messages log. Is this DHCPDISCOVER doing it correctly? > >I am not entirely sure what do you mean with "SoftMac says its > Associated", That's the gist of a line in the log. Jan 26 12:14:43 diablo kernel: SoftMAC: associated! > but sending DHCPDISCOVER to 255.255.255.255 is a normal > way to request a dynamic IP address. IF you provide an excerpt from the > logs I may be able to shed some light on the rest of it. I figured it out that its ok. I was thinking (erroniously it appears)that it should be sending that to 192.168.1.255, eg the top, broadcast address in that block. The connection dialog is getting more automatic all the time. The last powerup, it did everything but change the key mode to a 40/104 hex key, and maybe event that is now automatic but I didn't try the default displayed settings first to find out. But it did display the correct key without my having to cat the keyfile and then paste it into the knetworkmanagers key entry line. That's a big improvement right there! -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
