[ILUG] Re:RT61

Andrew Court syklops at gmail.com
Wed Aug 30 20:02:46 IST 2006


After you set the ESSID, and type in the WEP key, just run dhclient
wlan0, where wlan0 is your interface. that should pick up an IP. I
have never used Gnome's dhcp client so can't comment on it.

Well done with the compile.

On 8/30/06, Alan Mac Hugh <mach1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Once again thank you all, I plan to write a how to on my blog once I'm
> finished.
>
> Ok the wireless is being recognised now( 87% strenght ), but it is not get
> an connection, I get host is unreachable when I ping. I have to use  static
> IP as it I set up for dhcp Gnome wont load for some reason, I get gdm login
> but Gnome doesn't load, also if I'm in a shell it just crash. .I read some
> where to try iwpriv instead of iwconfig , so I'll have a look at that later.
> Alan
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