i haven't had time to look into this further, but let me respond briefly: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, R. G. Newbury wrote: > > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 08:44:25 -0500 (EST) > > From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > 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 08:39:00 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? > > Hmmm,.."No DHCPOFFERS received." > 1) DHCP server not turned on?? (You have likely checked that three times > already!) it's on. and DHCP is giving out addresses to wired computers nicely. > 2) No remaining available DHCP addresses? This one got me: I set up for > only two then tried a new (third) unit, forgetting that the printserver was > using the 'spare' address. 50 addresses available. > 3) More insidious: whoever set up the Linksys turned on MAC filtering, so > no DHCP Offer will *ever* be sent. After I fixed problem #2, it took me > a....further...while to figure out this one. And it's kinda hidden in the > linksys setup structure ( I use the DD-WRT BIOS on my linksys, and it is a > little more friendly). checked that first thing. absolutely no filtering. > 4) I found that iwconfig is order dependent and sensitive to too many > settings being tried at once. The ESSID setting has to be LAST. (Thank you to > somone on this list!) hmmmmm ... i don't remember reading that. or maybe i just glossed over it. in any event, i did check all the basic stuff before proceeding to whine about it. i'll play with this more this weekend. 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 ========================================================================
