Ross Walker wrote: > On Jul 29, 2010, at 5:57 PM, Phil Savoie <psavoie1783 at rogers.com> wrote: > >>> Doesn't it look like the wpa connection is successful? >>> It says: " Activation (wlan0/wireless) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) >>> successful. Connected to wireless network 'pszone'." >>> Only stages 3/4 (the DHCP part) seems to fail... >>> The DHCPDISCOVER times out. >>> Google says that some people with linksys DHCP problems in linux rebooted it or >>> flashed it... >>> >>> JD >>> >> Thanks for you reply. On further googling, I found that similar cards >> had the same problem. It seems that if one does a tcpdump in another >> terminal while using NM it works. I even got the latest firmware on the >> router. >> >> what works: >> >> tcpdump -i wlan0 host <hostname> >> >> Then run NM and voila! I was able to connect. I wonder why the card has >> to be in promiscuous mode to work? >> >> Anyone have any thoughts? > > Don't know, but I think there is an option you can put in your interface file to bring it up in promiscuous mode. Try that and see if NM can grab it on boot. > > -Ross > There used to be a PROMISC=yes setting I could have used int the ifcfg-wlan0 file but is now unsupported according to /usr/share/doc/initscripts-8.45.30/sysconfig.txt. Thanks for trying though as it is appreciated. Phil