Re: Re: problems with madwifi and Atheros AR5418

["Kevin Mitchell" <kevmitch@gmail.com>]

When you run dhclient without arguments, it tries to get an ip address
on any of the interfaces listed with /sbin/ifconfig minus the lo
interface. If you take a look at that output with the ath9k module
loaded, you'll see a "wmaster0" interface. My understanding is that
this is a kind of abstraction layer from which the wlan0 interface is
created. Thus, trying to get an ip address directly on it doesn't
work. Of course wlan0 should get an ip just fine provided your
associated to an AP with dhcp. If that message disturbs you, you could
try runnning "dhclient wlan0" so that it only tries to get an address
on wlan0 which is all you really want anyway.
Kevin