From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-64752-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1HuAge-0000cv-7B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:13:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l51HC30Z005505; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 17:12:03 GMT Received: from dcnode-01.unlimitedmail.net (static-adsl-b-16-58.ipcom.comunitel.net [212.145.239.58] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l51H7idg000816 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 17:07:45 GMT Received: from ppp.zz ([137.204.208.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by dcnode-01.unlimitedmail.net (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l51H7fHQ026051 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 19:07:41 +0200 From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 19:39:13 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200705311105.46352.randy@electronsweatshop.com> <200706011257.52241.randy@electronsweatshop.com> In-Reply-To: <200706011257.52241.randy@electronsweatshop.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706011939.13714.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> X-UnlimitedMail-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UnlimitedMail-MailScanner-From: shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: a679684f-39c2-4f00-bfec-5dee487f8b2d X-Archives-Hash: b0fb863095c0d7c4566ebb366bcd0dc7 I can not help you with your problem, but... On Friday 1 June 2007 18:57, Randy Barlow wrote: > Strangely, it seems to aquire an ipv6 address. The ipv6 address you see is the so-called link-local address, and is automatically constructed by the network adapter based on its MAC address; hence, it's not "acquired" from some server, and so it's perfectly normal that, even though there are other connectivity problems, the network adapter has this kind of ipv6 address. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list