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