Problems with PCI wireless card.

Hi,

I am having serious problems with a PCI Realtek based wireless card.

The card is associated (connected) to the access point and it's
able to send and receive packets according to the 'ifconfig'. However,
it fail to obtain an IP address by DHCP, and it fails to let me do
anything at all with my connection, like browsing etc.

The only real error message I am getting from 'ifup eth1' is:

"/etc/init.d/tmdns reload >/dev/null 2>&1" and a hangup

When I do a search on Google about "/etc/init.d/tmdns reload >/dev/null
2>&1", some people had the same problems with different devices which are
not related to wireless networking, but mostly on Mandrake 9 and 10 which
I am running. Unfortunately, none of
these messages have the solution to the problem. So I was wondering if
anyone here would know
what may be wrong. It is not my access point since I have several other
machines, among them
the laptop I am currently on, connected to it without problems.

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//ceed

ceed <cdysthe@punkass.com> wrote:

> The card is associated (connected) to the access point and it's
> able to send and receive packets according to the 'ifconfig'. However,
> it fail to obtain an IP address by DHCP, and it fails to let me do
> anything at all with my connection, like browsing etc.

Is your NIC in the correct mode. `iwconfig eth1' should show the mode as
being Managed if you are using an Access Point.

> "/etc/init.d/tmdns reload >/dev/null 2>&1" and a hangup

tmdns is a small daemon for ZeroConf link-local name resolution. It
would seem that you have your machine set to use ZeroConf protocols.
Do you have a zcip program running?

If so, you should be able to things contained to local wireless subnet,
so long as the devices have IP addresses in the same link-local IP range
of 169.254.x.x

If you `ifconfig eth1', do you see an IP address in the 169.254.x.x
range? If so, try killing zcip and tmdns and then try `ifup eth1'

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Cameron Kerr
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