Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i'm embarrassed to admit that i can't, for the life of me, get a
wireless connection at a friend's house at the moment. updated fedora
8, and a stock linksys WRT54GL. i have the SSID, i have the WEP key,
i even have the router password, so i've logged in and checked
everything -- no MAC filtering, no DHCP client limit, etc.
but when i try to bring up wireless, /var/log/messages shows me:
Feb 8 08:37:59 localhost dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Feb 8 08:37:59 localhost dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Feb 8 08:37:59 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
Feb 8 08:38:07 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
...
Feb 8 08:39:00 localhost dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
i can certainly see the WAP:
# iwlist wlan0 scan
...
Cell 02 - Address: 00:18:39:6A:01:EF
ESSID:"XXXXXXXX"
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=83/100 Signal level=-46 dBm Noise level=-67 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
...
i'm pretty much out of ideas here -- any thoughts?
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
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I get the exact same situation at home with my linksys router (probably
not router related) when
I do not have broadcast ssid on. Start broadcating the ssid and I make a
connection no problem.
Alan
