Getting wireless card to pick up an IP

Forum: Networking
Topic: Getting wireless card to pick up an IP
started by: MarkAshley

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Posted by MarkAshley on June 15 2005,11:14

Hi there

I'm looking at installing DSL to hard drive as a minimal distro, then adding components as I need them (apt, xfce, etc). Before I do this, I want to make sure all of my hardware is supported.

My Atheros wireless card is detected as ath0 and appears to be working correctly. I have configured the SSID, but it won't pick up an IP address. How do I configure ath0 to use DHCP?

Thanks
Mark

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Posted by ke4nt1 on June 15 2005,13:22

Try using the line '  pump -i ath0  '  in a shell..

If this works, add it in with your other lines to your /opt/bootlocal.sh file..

73
ke4nt

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Posted by MarkAshley on June 15 2005,15:11

Thanks - that works. I've never heard of the pump command. You can tell I've been using Windows too long - I was lost without ipconfig /renew

Hello Linux - it's good to be back!

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