Problem bringing up Netgear WG511 interface

[Ian McDonald]

I believe this is a timing issue - I have got something very similar
with a Linksys card.

Currently what I am doing is running it without DHCP and putting a
static IP address on the card and it works!! Bring up the wireless
interface first (ifconfig wlan0 up or similar) and then start
wpa_supplicant.

I've experimented with the -w option but that doesn't help....

I want to experiment further and will tell you if I then get success


On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:58:12 +0000, Neil Jerram <neil at ossau.uklinux.net> wrote:
> I forgot to mention a couple of things ...
> 
> Neil Jerram wrote:
> > 9. Finally the DHCP step.
> >
> > root at laruns:/home/neil# pump -i wlan0
> > Operation failed.
> >
> > (There is a delay of around 30 seconds before pump says "Operation
> > failed".)
> 
> During these 30 seconds, the following extra lines appear in the
> wpa_supplicant window:
> 
> RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'wlan0' added
> l2_packet_receive - recv: Network is down
> RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'wlan0' added
> 
> And after pump has exited, ifconfig now reports that the interface is down:
> 
> root at laruns:/etc# ifconfig -a
> ...
> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:09:5B:EF:34:47
>            BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:1975 (1.9 KiB)  TX bytes:11913 (11.6 KiB)
>            Interrupt:11 Memory:10400000-10401fff
> 
> Finally, the green light on the Netgear card flashes occasionally
> throughout, but is mostly off.
> 
> Regards,
>         Neil
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