Problems with WPA-PSK and madwifi driver

[Jonathan Buschmann]

Hi,
Be sure first that wpa_client has succesfully authenticated.
Try dhclient without the -1.
BTW, is your dhcp server on the same subnetwork as your client?
jonathan

Eduardo Mendes waxed wise and spake thus on 02/11/2005 06:08 PM:

>Hello
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>Thanks.  I have tried dhclient -1 ath0 but the message was:
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>Unable to obtain a lease on the first time.   
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>Is there anything else that I can try?
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>Many thanks
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>Ed
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>On Friday 11 February 2005 12:05 pm, Jonathan Buschmann wrote:
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>>I don't know what Mandrake uses for a dhcp client (fedora uses
>>dhclient), but maybe you need to run it (again) after starting
>>wpa_supplicant.
>>jonathan
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>>Eduardo Mendes waxed wise and spake thus on 02/11/2005 11:23 AM:
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>>>On Thursday 10 February 2005 05:04 pm, Michael Reilly wrote:
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>>>>Eduardo Mendes wrote:
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>>>>>Hello
>>>>>
>>>>>Many thanks but unfortunately it didn't work. The two lights are
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>>>blinking
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>>>>>together but ifconfig shows that no valid ip was assigned to ath0.
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>>>>My lights both blink together for a second and then they stop
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>blinking
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>>>>together with madwifi.  A few seconds later they blink together
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>again
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>>>and
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>>>>then stop again.  Are they blinking together continuously for you?
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>>>In my case the lights blink together in equal time intervals.  It
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>seems
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>>>that
>>>the card is somehow connected to the router but it can't get a valid
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>ip
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>>>address.  I don't know what I am doing wrong.
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>>>Here is the output of iwconfig and ifconfig after issuing the
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>commands:
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>>>ifconfig ath0, iwconfig ath0 channel 1, wpa_supplicant
>>>-c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dmadwifi -iath0 -d
>>>
>>>ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"eacghome.airlink"
>>>         Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412GHz  Access Point:
>>>00:E0:98:4F:D8:B2
>>>         Bit Rate:36Mb/s   Tx-Power:50 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
>>>         Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>>>         Encryption key:DF6D-E315-877A-4A16-22FD-239D-A8A8-0B6F
>>>Security
>>>mode:restricted
>>>         Power Management:off
>>>         Link Quality:49/94  Signal level:-46 dBm  Noise level:-95
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>dBm
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>>>         Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>>>         Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
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>>>ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:09:5B:C4:1A:E2
>>>         inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fec4:1ae2/64 Scope:Link
>>>         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>>         RX packets:25 errors:19 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:19
>>>         TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>>         collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
>>>         RX bytes:2418 (2.3 Kb)  TX bytes:1194 (1.1 Kb)
>>>         Interrupt:9 Memory:d0a4a000-d0a5a000
>>>
>>>Any hints?
>>>
>>>Cheers
>>>
>>>Ed
>>>
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