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Re: dhcp client wifi setup



On Saturday, 24 December 2005 at 23:37:45 -0500, jlquinn wrote:
> Richard Lyons wrote:
[...]
> >
> >    Exiting.
> >
> >    Failed to bring up eth0.
> >
> >Which tells me I left something out.  But what?
> 
> Chances are with a thinkpad that you have onboard ethernet.  eth0 will 
> correspond to that and not the wifi card.  Orinoco wifi will usually 
> show up as wlan0.

In fact there is not.  It has no suitable RJ45 socket, and iwconfig only
shows 
lo         no wireless extensions

eth0       IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"Coi......
           ...etc...

I wish it were that easy :-(

Thanks,

-- 
richard



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