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Barry Samuels bjsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
Barry Samuels bjsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
I have a laptop with a wireless PCMCIA card which connects to my
home
network. This relies on a set of fixed parameters supplied by /etc/network/interfaces.
Ah, clear access point, then? No DHCP setup?!
That was right but I've since installed DHCP and have got it working after a few hiccoughs.
I seem to have waproamd working now. All I need to do is provide the encryption key via iwconfig and it connects.
If you drop a file in /etc/waproamd/keys/accesspointmacaddress.wep containing just the wep key then it'll automagically do that step for you.
Now I have another problem. As my laptop now doesn't have a fixed IP address how do I find out what that address is so that other machines on my network can contact it?
I'm assuming that you're running the DHCP server on your network? If so, assign a static IP to the mac address for your laptop, it's certainly how I've got mine configured (the laptop always gets 192.168.0.2 from my DHCP server at home)/
The other thing I've discovered is that I cant't ping the laptop, using it's assigned IP taken from the output of dhclient, even from the laptop???
Hmmm, got some form of firewall on the laptop? I can't think of any other reason for it... Certainly seems to work for me.
Cheers, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk