[arachne] Re: arachne and wifi

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On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:04:51, Christof Lange wrote:

> On 12 Aug 08 at 0:07, Glenn McCorkle <arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Try this.....

>> --- in arachne.cfg ---

>> [tcp/ip]
>> IP_Address WATTCP <--- Arachne uses only the values in TCPconfig file
>> NameServer        <--- leave blank
>> AltNameServer     <--- leave blank
>> Gateway 0.0.0.0
>> AltGateway 0.0.0.0
>> Netmask 0.0.0.0
>> TCPconfig WIFI.CFG

>> --- in wifi.cfg ---
>> my_ip=bootp    <--- if BOOTP does not work....
>> #my_ip=dhcp    <--- try switching to DHCP
>> _____________________________

>> With those settings... everything _should_ be grabbed via BOOTP or DHCP

> Thank you, Glenn. With these settings, the wifi card did a lot of
> hopeful blinking. - Anyway, so far, no success. The reason, however,
> may be elsewhere. I tried to run a ping.exe utility that gives a
> message about bootp failure.

> When I try to connect to the network in Linux, there is still
> another step between installing the wifi device and dhcp.
> There, I need to run an utility iwconfig and enter the essid of
> the local network. Is there possibly some analogy for this in DOS?

> Christof

> ________________________________________________________________

http://www.glennmcc.org/download/tcpinfo.zip
(contains TCPINFO.EXE from the WATTCP 'package')

Also try these settings that work on my LAN .....

http://www.freelists.org/archives/arachne/07-2008/msg00115.html

Hopefully,

TCPINFO.EXE will provide you with the correct IPs to use in each place.

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