Bug 73208

Summary:	dhclient doesn't work with wlan-ng-driven prism-II mini-pci card
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <komarek>
Component:	dhcp	Assignee:	Daniel Walsh <dwalsh>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	huffman
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Description Need Real Name 2002-08-31 20:02:03 UTC

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Description of problem:
1) This is about dhclient.  dhcpcd is not part of null, and dhclient isn't
listed by bugzilla.  See bug 73206.

2) after starting wlan0 interface (actiontec prism II based modem/wireless combo
in IBM Thinkpad X22 9662-9DU), dhclient fails to get lease where dhcpcd succeeds:

[root@laptop root]# dhclient wlan0
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0pl1
Copyright 1995-2001 Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

/sbin/dhclient-script: configuration for wlan0 not found.
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:20:e0:8a:53:bb
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:20:e0:8a:53:bb
Sending on   Socket/fallback
receive_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
send_packet: Network is down

[root@laptop root]# ./dhcpcd wlan0


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.load wlan-ng modules, enable card and associate with base station:
  modprobe prism2_pci
  wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
  wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid="$SSID" authtype="opensystem"

2.run dhclient wlan0, it will fail as described above.
3.run dhcpcd wlan0, it will succeed as above.
	

Additional info:

I'm happy to do any experiments, network dumps, etc.

Comment 1 Brian C. Huffman 2002-09-03 14:38:49 UTC

If you create a profile in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts called ifcfg-wlan0,
this will work correctly.  This is what mine contains:

DEVICE=wlan0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=no

Comment 2 Elliot Lee 2003-01-13 18:00:22 UTC

dhclient comes from the dhcp source package.

Comment 3 Daniel Walsh 2003-01-16 20:36:02 UTC

I am closing this bug since a it was a setup problem.

Dan