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Date:      Thu, 15 Jun 2000 08:48:05 -0700
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cool
Message-ID:  <20000615084805.E809@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006140050210.58746-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006140050210.58746-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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On Wednesday, 14 June 2000 at  1:00:27 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> So, if you are in the Singapore Changi international airport,
> the internet center in the transit area will loan you for FREE,
> a wavelan PC-CARD.
>
> So here I am waiting for my next flight and I'm on the net!
> (well they hold your passport in exchange but that's ok)
>
> I couldn;t get teh DHCP client to work,
> It kept saying:
>
>
> jules# /sbin/dhclient
> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
> Listening on BPF/wi0/00:60:1d:1e:42:6c
> Sending on   BPF/wi0/00:60:1d:1e:42:6c
> Can't find free bpf: No such file or directory
> exiting.
>
> And the log files showed..
>
> Jun 14 00:54:37 jules /kernel: rtinit: wrong ifa (0xc0f85980) was (0xc0ee3000)
> Jun 14 00:54:37 jules dhclient: Can't find free bpf: No such file or directory
> Jun 14 00:54:37 jules dhclient: exiting.
>
> So I just did:
> # wicontrol -i wi0 -p 1
> # tcpdump
>  eventually a packet showed up, from the router at 192.100.100.1
> so I just grabbed 192.100.100.2 (SHHHHHHHH!)
>
> now if I can get dhcp to work this would be great!

Great stuff.  Last but one time I was there (must have been a year
ago) I tried one of their Internet Cafe things, but I couldn't find an
active jack.

So how do they expect people to get these things to work without DHCP?

Greg
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