Fwd: WpaSupplicant how to

[Dan King <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I was recently going through the how to located here:

     http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/WpaSupplicant

This how-to shows the steps to follow to get a wifi interface working without using NetworkManager and subsequently how to have wireless working withouth having a user login.

Anyways, when going through this I was having issues because everything seemed to work but I was never getting an IP address when the system booted up.

After lots of looking at this and working at understanding what everything does I found the that prepnet startup script was killing dhclient using this command:

     killall dhclient >/dev/null 2>&1.

I first attempted to remove this and after that didn't work I simply changed the line to call dhclient instead. Making this change seems to have solved my issues.

I'm wondering if this guide was built more for someone using a static as opposed to a dynamic IP address? I'm not sure why dhclient is being killed especially since calling it seems to have worked for me.

Anyways, does anyone have any ideas if I'm doing something wrong or if the documentation needs a refresher and maybe a step or two on configuration for static vs dynamic ip addresses?

Thanks,
Dan

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