DHCP client on SuSE 9.3 Professional for interface wlan0

[Christian Deutsch_1]

Hi folks,

I have my WLAN (D-Link DWL-122) running on interface wlan0, iwconfig shows me the interface is up.

To get the TCP/IP stack running on this interface, I need to use ifconfig to get the connection between wlan0 and the TCP/IP stack, correct?

How do I get wlan0 working as a DHCP client, any ideas? I don't need dhcpd for that do I?

Thanks for any helpful hints and tips, points will be awarded.

Kind regards, Christian

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

issuing

dhclient wlan0

should do it, after having assigned the ssid and stuff.

[Christian Deutsch_1]

Dear Florian,

Thanks for the hint, but could it be that SuSE 9.3 doesn't include a "dhclient" binary?

I'll do some more looking around and asking around.

Kind regards, Christian

[Hoefnix]

Christian,

Check the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0 for:
BOOTPROTO='dhcp'

If you use 2 NIC's and only one at the time is up you may want to use
DHCLIENT_PRIMARY_DEVICE='yes'

In this file because the dhcp client for this interface will then also update your resolve.conf etc..

Also this file good be updated using Yast.

HTH,

Peter Geluk

[Hoefnix]

Ps. SuSE 9.3 does include a dhcp client (2 infact)

Peter

[Hoefnix]

from the dhcp config file you can choose (if you installed it via Yast)
/etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp

# Which DHCP client should be used?
# If empty, dhcpcd is tried, then dhclient
# Other possible values:
# dhcpcd (DHCP client daemon)
# dhclient (ISC dhclient)
DHCLIENT_BIN=""

HTH,
Peter

[Christian Deutsch_1]

Dear Peter,

Yes thanks for the hints. I did see the "dhcpd" package including a DHCP client and also the "dhcp-client" package.

I'll try now according to your advice.

Almost there, this was a tough one (for me anyway).

Thanks again everyone, Christian