Re: Fedora 17, hostapd and avoiding DHCPDISCOVER requests

2012-10-13 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi, You can set non dhcp Network Manager on a specified interface thus: Right click on the network manager icon and click on edit connections. Navigate to "wireless" tab (in your case). Go to "Edit" -> IPV4 setting Set "Method" to Manual and assign a static IP. Also to avoid IPV6 DHCP DISCOVER req

Re: Fedora 17, hostapd and avoiding DHCPDISCOVER requests

2012-10-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:11:32 +0200 Kevin Wilson wrote: > Is there a way to tell the Network Manager **not** to send DHCP > requests in such a case I don't know if NetworkManager can ever be taught to be polite. Every time I try to use NM to see if it has gotten better, I run into something like

Fedora 17, hostapd and avoiding DHCPDISCOVER requests

2012-10-13 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hi, I am running hostapd on top of backfire (hostapd) on WRT54GL LinkSys device with b43 driver. I have very simple, minimalistic hostapd configuration. Now , I run on the LinkSys device: hostapd /etc/hostapd.conf and it starts OK. On a nearby Fedora 17 Linux machine I insert wifi USB card, and