Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:05:51 +0000 From: "Brett L. Brown" <brett-brown@earthlink.net> To: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: loosing wireless connection... Message-ID: <200311292205.51566.brett-brown@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20031130013030.GD8823@dds.nl> References: <200311291507.27409.brett-brown@earthlink.net> <20031130013030.GD8823@dds.nl>
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On Sunday 30 November 2003 01:30 am, you wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 03:07:27PM +0000, Brett L. Brown wrote: > > I'm running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a Dell Latitude c600. The laptop is > > continuously powered on. When I close my laptop I lose my dhcp lease. I > > would prefer the behavior of not ever loosing my dhcp lease when I close > > my screen. If I can't have this what is a quick way to request another > > lease without having to loose my login session or rebooting. Currently I > > have to leave my screen open or if my wife closes it for me I have to > > reboot. :( > > > > brett > > That depend what you using for a DHCP server. If you use isc-dhcpd then I am using an SMC 8Port Barricade Router as a DHCP server. Is this ok? I was wondering if my Wireless Access Point configuration settings might have something to do with this. I have powersavingmode=off but powersleepmode=100 is set and I'm wondering if this is the culprit. I havn't figured out how to reinitialize powersleepmode and I'm not sure if I should increase are decrease the setting. > you can configure it to bind an IP to your MAC address. I can't give you > an example. I think one exist in in the manual. You could also just use > a static IP as an alternitive.
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