Re: argh -- can't get wireless in someone else's house

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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