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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Similar to Roberto, I have had problems getting DHCP to go. The card will work fine when allocated a static IP - so it's good enough that I'm paying for a Linuxant license - but DHCP will not work.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The interesting extra factoid I can provide that Roberto might not have noticed is this: if I run iwevent in the background, I can see the card successfully registering with my Access Point, and the MAC of the AP is listed in the event log. If I then bring up the card (ifconfig eth1 <some IP address>) this is fine, but if I bring the card up using DHCP as configured in ifcfg-eth1 BOOTPROTO=dhcp, then I get another registration event listing an AP MAC of all zeroes.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Some sort of nasty interaction between dhcpd and the driverloader is breaking the association with the AP as far as I can tell. Has anyone else noticed this?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">FWIW, I have a D-Link DWL-G650+ (TI chipset), using 64-bit WEP w/ preshared key and a MAC filter on my AP. The AP itself is a 3Com Officeconnect 802.11g AP with latest firmware (1.02.11 Dec 03).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(Should have looked a little more carefully when buying this card - or better still D-Link should not use such confusingly similar model names - the DWL-G650 is an Atheros based card IIRC, which should work with MadWIFI)</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Cheers</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Simon</FONT>
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