new machine - problems with gaim

[Mark Knecht]

Sorry. This got sent before I was done. I'll send again with all the
info in a few minutes. Just delete this message for now.


On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:27:24 -0800, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:13:31 -0800, Rick Stevens
> <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Jan  4 18:30:04 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to
> > > 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> > > Jan  4 18:30:04 Christmas dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
> > > Jan  4 18:30:12 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to
> > > 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> > > Jan  4 18:30:12 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to
> > > 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18
> > > Jan  4 18:30:12 Christmas dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
> > >
> > >    This sort of stuff is repeating a lot.
> >
> > It sure looks like the DHCP server is cycling a lot.  Are you using
> > your ISP's DHCP or one on your local access point/switch/router?
> 
> Hi,
>    OK, so I just booted the machine up and I'm writing this email from
> it so networking is working. When I first boot up wireless does not
> come up automatically. I was in a rush to get the machine wrapped up
> before Christmas so I made a script in root's account that starts
> wireless for me. Unfortunately this requires that I log in as root and
> run it by hand right now. I'd like to get that cleaned up in the next
> week or two, but it's only a minor annoyance. Here's the script:
> 
> [root at Christmas root]# ./scripts/wireless
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1rc14
> Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
> 
> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
> /sbin/dhclient-script: configuration for sit0 not found.
> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
> Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:0d:88:c8:b9:a0
> Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:0d:88:c8:b9:a0
> Listening on LPF/eth0/00:11:5b:4d:41:bb
> Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:11:5b:4d:41:bb
> Listening on LPF/sit0/
> Sending on   LPF/sit0/
> Listening on LPF/lo/
> Sending on   LPF/lo/
> Sending on   Socket/fallback
> receive_packet failed on sit0: Network is down
> DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
> send_packet: Network is down
> DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> ip length 327 disagrees with bytes received 534.
> accepting packet with data after udp payload.
> DHCPACK from 192.168.10.3
> bound to 192.168.10.101 -- renewal in 40874 seconds.
> [root at Christmas root]#
>