Re: problems with madwifi and Atheros AR5418
Oh, you're right, I guess I didn't notice that before. In any case, it
doesn't appear to cause any problems for me either. It's just an
annoying error message.
Kevin
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:06:10 -0700
> "Kevin Mitchell" <kevmitch@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Thanks. I understood what you have explained; my perplexity concerns
> the fact that even when dhclient is called on the actual interface
> (wlan0, or eth0 as renamed by udev), not on wmaster0, I still get those
> warnings.
>
> Celejar
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