[CentOS] Wifi not working
Larry Vaden
vaden at texoma.net
Wed Jul 28 01:19:13 UTC 2010
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Phil Savoie <psavoie1783 at rogers.com> wrote:
> Beginning DHCP transaction.
> Jul 27 19:31:38 smurf3 dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client
> V3.0.5-RedHat
> Jul 27 19:31:38 smurf3 dhclient: Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems
> Consortium.
> Jul 27 19:31:38 smurf3 dhclient: All rights reserved.
> Jul 27 19:31:38 smurf3 dhclient: For info, please visit
> http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
> Jul 27 19:31:38 smurf3 dhclient:
> Jul 27 19:31:38 smurf3 NetworkManager: <info> dhclient started with pid
> 30770
> Jul 27 19:31:38 smurf3 NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage
> 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) complete.
> Jul 27 19:31:38 smurf3 NetworkManager: <info> DHCP: device wlan0 state
> changed normal exit -> preinit
> Jul 27 19:31:38 smurf3 dhclient: Listening on LPF/wlan0/c4:17:fe:bb:6a:df
> Jul 27 19:31:38 smurf3 dhclient: Sending on LPF/wlan0/c4:17:fe:bb:6a:df
> Jul 27 19:31:38 smurf3 dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback
> Jul 27 19:31:38 smurf3 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
> 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> Jul 27 19:31:42 smurf3 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
> 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
> Jul 27 19:31:53 smurf3 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
> 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
> Jul 27 19:32:07 smurf3 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
> 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
> Jul 27 19:32:23 smurf3 NetworkManager: <info> Device 'wlan0' DHCP
> transaction took too long (>45s), stopping it.
> Jul 27 19:32:23 smurf3 NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: canceled DHCP
> transaction, dhcp client pid 30770
It would seem that one possibility is that the AP is not running a
DHCP server.
Another is that if the AP is running a DHCP server, it is restricting
IP addresses to known clients.
kind regards/ldv
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