Hi, I hope you can help me. I am not subscribed to the list so please reply back this message.

This is the setup, I have a linux box SuSE 8.2 (kernel 2.4.20) with (presumably) the latest pcmcia-cs (kernel) system and wireless-tools. In my linux box a have to network cards: one of them I use it to conect to the internet and the other one is DWL-650 wireless card ( in the past this card worked in AP mode, unfortunately I do not remeber what software, for linux, I used to do so). The standard drivers that are part of the pcmcia-cs system do not allow me to configure the DWL-650 as an AP. So I got the latest release of hostap_cs. After installing it, the card is in AP mode, but something are not working properly. 

After turning one of my laptops (linux box again) it takes a long time to request for an IP (in the past was immediate) maybe I can ajust some parameter in the AP card to tell it to look more frequently for requests.

After more than two minutes it assigns a dynamic IP to the client. I have configured the dhcpd server in such way that it send the domain-name, domain-name-servers, broadcast-address to the client but I am not receiving any of this information. This is strange because it is assigning a dynamic IP but not the rest of the information. As you may know in the client side (if configured) the /etc/resolv.conf has to be modified when it gets connected to the AP, but this never happen.

If instead of using the DWL-650 I use the other card and create a wired network the client recives all the information (I do not change the configuration of the dhcpd server at all). Obviously the /etc/resolv.conf it is modified.

What is wrong? Does the hostap changes the structure of the packets, and this maybe the reson why the client is not recognizing the the information? What can i do?

I really need to make this work

Thanks in advance

Heberto del Rio