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Reploid

Member

From: Cold Country up North

Registered: 2008-03-27

Posts: 110

Dchpcd won't give me my IP address back!

After playing around with the aircrack-suite, I can't get my normal wireless internet connection back up and running?

[yo@archcomputer ~]$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
Password:
[yo@archcomputer ~]$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor
[yo@archcomputer ~]$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
[yo@archcomputer ~]$ sudo airodump-ng wlan0

Now finished playing, wanting to surf the net again
[yo@archcomputer ~]$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
[yo@archcomputer ~]$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
[yo@archcomputer ~]$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid freedom
[yo@archcomputer ~]$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
[yo@archcomputer ~]$ sudo dhcpcd wlan0
wlan0: dhcpcd already running on pid 3249 (/var/run/dhcpcd-wlan0.pid)

Anybody has a clue if there is a way to fix this other than continuously having to reboot?

pressh

Developer/TU

From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,717

Re: Dchpcd won't give me my IP address back!

can you try killing the process?

lucke

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 3,682

Re: Dchpcd won't give me my IP address back!

killall dhcpcd; rm /var/run/dhcpcd-wlan0.pid

FreakGuard

Member

Registered: 2008-04-27

Posts: 83

Re: Dchpcd won't give me my IP address back!

dhcpcd -n wlan0

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