Re: Error produced by static ip setting: ifconfig: inet: bad val

On Monday, January 31, 2011 13:57:29 Yue Wu wrote:
> List,
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I use following setting for my wireless networking enviroment:
> 
>     ifconfig_wlan0="mode 11g bssid my:bssid wepmode on weptxkey 1
> wepkey 1:0x1111111111 DHCP"
> 
> But I don't like DHCP and want to use static ip, so I tried:
> 
>     ifconfig_wlan0="mode 11g bssid my:bssid wepmode on weptxkey 1
> wepkey 1:0x1111111111 inet 192.168.1.144  netmask 255.255.255.0"
> 
> But the setting makes BSD networking not working anymore, and when
> the system starts up, there's an error message:
> 
>     ifconfig: inet: bad value
> 
> What's wrong? How to use static ip in my wireless networking?

Remove the 'inet', it isn't required.

-- 
Bernhard
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