On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Gary Hanley wrote:
I recently upgraded my router to a WRT45GS and have been having a bear of a time trying to figure out why, when I boot Linux, I can't get an IP address from the router but with Windows I can.
It worked with the old router. It works with Windows. There are no DHCP tweaks in the router. What the hell is wrong?
Turns out that there a bug in the router. It doesn't like Linux-based DHCP requests. This is a known issue and apparently Linksys has no intention of fixing it. But they did release a Linux-compatible version of the router instead.
So my options are to either by the Linux-compatible version or find another brand that supports Linux (or better, doesn't exclude Linux) and is as good wireless performance-wise as the Linksys routers.
Any recommendations?
If the router always uses the same subnet on the client side, and its not a laptop that you use in different envirionments, maybe you could just pick a static address. -Jamie