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anadyr

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Registered: 2005-02-10

Posts: 225

Unclear DHCP timeout

Hi,

I am trying to wirelessly connect to my home network with a laptop (using RT2500). For some reason dhcp times out, even though I can connect with windows. It always worked, but I had to meddle a bit with the configs for another reason.
Here is the output of iwlist ra0 scan. "ulysses" is my network:

ra0       Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:1A:70:9E:3A:70
                    Mode:Managed
                    ESSID:"ulysses"
                    Encryption key:on
                    Channel:1
                    Quality:73/100  Signal level:-53 dBm  Noise level:63 dBm

This is the script that I run for connecting to the network. It is a daemon that is placed in /etc/rc.d folder which I can start at boot by adding it in rc.conf:

#!/bin/bash

. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions

case "$1" in
    start)
     stat_busy "Starting Wireless Interface"
ifconfig ra0 up
iwconfig ra0 mode Managed ap 00:1A:70:9E:3A:70 channel 1
iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=AES
#wpa_passphrase <ssid> [passphrase]
iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK=complicatedcode
iwpriv ra0 set TxRate=0
iwconfig ra0 essid ulysses
dhcpcd -d -L --noipv4ll ra0
     stat_done
    ;;
    stop)
     stat_busy "Stopping Wireless Interface"
    /sbin/ifconfig ra0 down
     stat_done
    ;;
esac

But, when I run it, it times out:

Jul  6 20:28:23 ANADYR dhcpcd[3065]: ra0: dhcpcd 4.0.10 starting
Jul  6 20:28:23 ANADYR dhcpcd[3065]: ra0: hardware address = 00:13:d3:6c:f3:78
Jul  6 20:28:23 ANADYR dhcpcd[3065]: ra0: executing `/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks', reason PREINIT
Jul  6 20:28:23 ANADYR dhcpcd[3065]: ra0: broadcasting for a lease
Jul  6 20:28:23 ANADYR dhcpcd[3065]: ra0: sending DHCP_DISCOVER with xid 0x40c6e5e, next in 4.18 seconds
Jul  6 20:28:28 ANADYR dhcpcd[3065]: ra0: sending DHCP_DISCOVER with xid 0x40c6e5e, next in 8.64 seconds
Jul  6 20:28:36 ANADYR dhcpcd[3065]: ra0: sending DHCP_DISCOVER with xid 0x40c6e5e, next in 16.94 seconds
Jul  6 20:28:53 ANADYR dhcpcd[3065]: ra0: sending DHCP_DISCOVER with xid 0x40c6e5e, next in 32.02 seconds
Jul  6 20:28:53 ANADYR dhcpcd[3065]: ra0: timed out
Jul  6 20:28:53 ANADYR dhcpcd[3065]: ra0: executing `/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks', reason FAIL

Finally, in Windows it works without a problem: this is a screenshot of the stats:
http://www.arabicliquor.com/images/IP_DHCP.jpg
I use dhcp, but in the router setup I specified which IP address to uise on my MAC address: 192.168.0.107.
Some more info: I have always used this config and it always worked, but now it doesn't work anymore. As far as I know I only changed the wireless channel to use number 1 (in order to connect a WII),
Plus, the laptop has not run a pacman -Syu for about 4 or 5 months. That however does not mean that DHCP should timeout; it has worked properly for the whole time...

Last edited by anadyr (2009-07-06 19:19:13)

firecat53

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From: Lake Stevens, WA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-14

Posts: 1,542

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Re: Unclear DHCP timeout

Have you tried netcfg2 with a network profile for your wireless card settings? Sometimes it works when other methods fail

Good luck!
Scott

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anadyr

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Registered: 2005-02-10

Posts: 225

Re: Unclear DHCP timeout

Well, that does not work. When I carefully follow the WIKI (section manual setup), it fails when I start wpa_supplicant:

ioctl [SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: operation not supported
ioctl [SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: operation not supported
ioctl [SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: operation not supported
ioctl [SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: operation not supported

I have never used wpa_supplicant because of this reason. I always used the older RT2500 driver instead...
Then again: how do I change from the old rt2500 driver to the new rt2x00 drivers? If I do "ifconfig ra0 up", how does the kernel know which driver (the old or the new) to use?

Last edited by anadyr (2009-07-07 16:45:00)

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Unclear DHCP timeout

Uninstall rt2500. The kernel includes the newer drivers. The new driver is called rt2500pci.

It'll probably be named eth1/eth0. Just change your netcfg profile to use this instead. Importantly it does not use the "iwpriv ra0" commands to configure, it uses the standard wireless extensions like most other drivers.