Why wpa_supplicant doesn't launch DHCP client?

jerrry94087 · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Posts: 41

I have AirLink101 card as wlan0 interface (through ndiswrapper)

/etc/config.d/net:
modules=( "ifconfig" "wpa_supplicant" )
wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dndiswrapper"
wpa_timeout_wlan0=60
iface_wlan0="inet dhcp"
config_wlan0=("dhcp")
dhcpcd_wlan0="-t 180" # Timeout after 180 seconds

wpa_supplicant establishes the link.
But dhcpcd (or dhclient) is never started.

How to make DHCP client to start?
Is wpa_supplicant supposed to start DHCP client or there is some other way that it's started?
It has to be maintained by wpa_supplicant since when the link goes down and reestablished DHCP client has to be started.

There is no mentioning of any DHCP in wpa_supplicant config file. Isn't the DHCP client command supposed to be there?
Also Gentoo documentation mentions that kernel has to be compiled with CONFIG_PACKET. How can I know if this option was set? Can this be the cause of the problem?

My kernel is 2.6.23.

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:18 am Post subject:

Back up to a .22 kernel and retry. the .23 and .24 give not-so-good support to ndiswrapper. The .22 family give the best support for ndiswrapper. The .25 kernels are getting better at it, but .23 and .24 suck for ndiswrapper.

Blessed be!
Pappy
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