About the IP configuration being lost, I have tracked the problem to the new NetworkManager program. I deactivated it, and now everything is normal.... On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 17:41 -0500, Gustavo A. Lozano wrote: > More interesting yet, after doing some tests, I came to the conclusion, > the ath0 interface lost its ip address as soon as a link is detected in > eth0, I re-ran everything with the eth0 unplugged.. and everything > worked fine until it get a Link.. I dont if this can probably come from > the Interrupts: > > ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:96:F6:7E:A7 > inet addr:192.168.254.104 Bcast:192.168.254.255 > Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:135193 errors:112 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:112 > TX packets:171764 errors:23 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:199 > RX bytes:106127772 (101.2 MiB) TX bytes:27167651 (25.9 MiB) > Interrupt:11 Memory:dc8c0000-dc8d0000 > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:3F:D8:C0:30 > UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:373 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:6872 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:39233 (38.3 KiB) TX bytes:451056 (440.4 KiB) > Interrupt:11 Base address:0xa000 > > > They are both using the same irq... > > On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 18:38 +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > On Sunday 29 May 2005 18:24, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > That's a good bit of info to know as I'm running my laptop with > > > selinux=0 because when I connect it to our corporate network DHCP > > > can't get an IP address with it enabled. Its a Dell D600 laptop with a > > > Broadcom tg3 network adapter. The DHCP server is (unfortunately) a > > > Windows 2003SP1 server. > > > > Are any AVC messages logged when the DHCP client fails? > > > > -- > > http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages > > http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark > > http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark > > http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page > > -- ------------------------- ---------------------------- Gustavo A. Lozano Noldata Corporation Chief Technology Officer Carrera 11A No. 90-16 Of 205 Noldata Corporation Bogota D.C. glozano@xxxxxxxxxxx Colombia