On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, John W. Linville wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 01:19:29PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > from /var/log/messages, upon running system-config-network and > > trying to activate wlan0: > > > > ... > > Feb 8 13:13:47 localhost dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 > > Feb 8 13:13:47 localhost dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 > > Feb 8 13:13:47 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 > > Feb 8 13:13:55 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 > > Feb 8 13:14:07 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10 > > Feb 8 13:14:17 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19 > > Feb 8 13:14:36 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 > > Feb 8 13:14:48 localhost dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received. > > I was hoping to see something other than the dhclient messages. > Is there no other pertinent information? that is the *entire* contents being dumped to /var/log/messages from the time i try to activate wlan0 to the time it fails and gives up. nothing else. i'll try more of your suggestions and report back shortly. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
