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Subject: Re: Newbie wirless install question
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Hi Scot,

On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 03:13 PM, Scott Miller wrote:

> I am still trying to get my wireless card working.  What am I doing 
> wrong?
>
> It should get an address via DHCP. (I did not see where this was 
> indicated in ifconfig.)

ifconfig won't tell you how it got it's address.

Can you post the full output of ifconfig wi0 and also /etc/rc.conf?

Have you used pccard_ifconfig="DHCP" in /etc/rc.conf?
>

Matthew Ryan

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