On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:10:41 -0500, edju wrote:

> Running Debian etch, and since getting AT&T Uverse service, I cannot
> connect my T30 wirelessly to the "Gateway" - a combo modem, router -
> SSID 2wire341. I've tried w/ and w/o WEP, used different channels, auto
> channel - I keep getting "No DHCPOFFERS received" from the Gateway. I
> am pretty sure the set-up's OK on the T30 end, and don't know what else
> to fool with on the Gateway. A Windows machine and an iphone do
> wireless automagically.
>
> The bad news is at http://rafb.net/p/xpwPCb36.html. If anyone else here
> has Uverse and successfully set up wireless from Linux, I'm all ears.

169.254.0.0 - is a /16 network used by Zeroconf[1] networking.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf

HTH
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On Nov 4, 7:10 pm, edju wrote:
> Running Debian etch, and since getting AT&T Uverse service, I cannot
> connect my T30 wirelessly to the "Gateway" - a combo modem, router - SSID
> 2wire341. I've tried w/ and w/o WEP, used different channels, auto
> channel - I keep getting "No DHCPOFFERS received" from the Gateway. I am
> pretty sure the set-up's OK on the T30 end, and don't know what else to
> fool with on the Gateway. A Windows machine and an iphone do wireless
> automagically.
>
> The bad news is athttp://rafb.net/p/xpwPCb36.html. If anyone else here
> has Uverse and successfully set up wireless from Linux, I'm all ears.

i would say edit resolv.conf
let it look like this :

nameserver yourispdnsserver
nameserver 192.168.0.1


cheers,

zaher el siddik