I've just installed 7 after using 6.5 and found dhcpclient isn't connecting to the local hot spot anymore.
message: No DHCPOFFERS received.
I'm using the same network settings as before.

Any advice?
Thanks.

r3bol wrote:I've just installed 7 after using 6.5 and found dhcpclient isn't connecting to the local hot spot anymore.

My understanding was that Mepis wouldn't search for available wireless connections. This worked in the 6.5 version? What program were you running to sniff out connections?

(The only reason I know this is that I can run PCLOS 2007 on the laptop [from Live CD] and see other connections, but can't see them when I boot back into antiX.)

In 6.5 i would open a terminal,
su
my-root-password
then type dhclient
it would then automatically connect me to a hotspot.
Leave the terminal open and open the browser.

Before you do this you have to change the default network settings to:
ndis wrapper (yes/no)
dhcp detect or manual address.
Restart for network settings to take affect.
I think that was it.

Anyway, i noticed in 7 now it tries to connect you with dhclient when booting (nice), but what was once working in 6.5 now isn't.

r3bol

I don't know if this will help or not, but you can disable the internet dhcp at boot by adding the cheat to the line in grub:

mean

Once to desktop, try what you usually did with Spartacus.

i'm at /boot/grub/
there are quite a few files there. Which one do I edit? Also I tried to edit one of them and it wouldn't save. I then tried to change permissions and that refused me too. Is there a way I can edit files using the gui?

No need to edit the files r3bol to try this out.

Just reboot, and at the grub menu screen, just type the word
mean

hit enter and then it will boot as normal. Then when you have logged in, open terminal, su to root, type
dhclient eth0 (or what yours is)

Yes, it worked first time!
So I'm curious, what did that do?

r3bol wrote:Yes, it worked first time!
So I'm curious, what did that do?

It's a secret __{{emoticon}}__

You know, I have no idea, really, except that I think there is a bit of a problem with how the dhcp client is set up in antiX (and Mepis).

Now r3bol, you can add that mean comment to the /boot/grub/menu.lst if you like (to save typing it in everytime).

Open a terminal,
sux to root
rox

Navigate to /boot/grub/

RIGHT-click on the menu.lst file>Set Run Action>
In the part that says enter a shell command, type leafpad (make sure you leave a space between the 'd' and the" Hit use command and now open the file with a left click on menu.lst

Add the word mean to the end of this part, like this
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/.... nomce quiet vga=791 mean

Looks like it worked.
Thanks!