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avr

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Registered: 2014-09-25

Posts: 30

dhcpcd timing out on wireless connections using wicd and wl module

I'm attempting to connect to my home wireless network using wicd. I'm using the wl module as that's my only choice with my wifi module. Wicd can connect to my wired connection without any problems, but on wireless I always see a similar thing in the logs.

Here is my wicd log on my most recent connection attempt over wifi:

2014/10/15 11:45:27 :: setting use global dns to 1
2014/10/15 11:45:27 :: setting global dns
2014/10/15 11:45:27 :: global dns servers are 8.8.8.8  
2014/10/15 11:45:27 :: domain is 
2014/10/15 11:45:27 :: search domain is 
2014/10/15 11:45:27 :: setting wireless interface wlp2s0
2014/10/15 11:45:27 :: setting wired interface enp1s0
2014/10/15 11:45:27 :: setting wpa driver wext
2014/10/15 11:45:27 :: setting automatically reconnect when connection drops 1
2014/10/15 11:45:27 :: setting backend to external
2014/10/15 11:45:27 :: Setting dhcp client to 0
2014/10/15 11:45:34 :: Connecting to wireless network mynetwork
2014/10/15 11:45:35 :: Putting interface down
2014/10/15 11:45:35 :: Releasing DHCP leases...
2014/10/15 11:45:35 :: Setting false IP...
2014/10/15 11:45:35 :: Stopping wpa_supplicant
2014/10/15 11:45:35 :: Flushing the routing table...
2014/10/15 11:45:35 :: Putting interface up...
2014/10/15 11:45:37 :: Generating psk...
2014/10/15 11:45:37 :: Attempting to authenticate...
2014/10/15 11:45:41 :: Running DHCP with hostname <hostname>
2014/10/15 11:45:41 :: dhcpcd[4886]: version 6.5.0 starting
2014/10/15 11:45:41 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:41 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: adding address <myipv6addr>
2014/10/15 11:45:41 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:41 :: dhcpcd[4886]: if_addaddress6: Permission denied
2014/10/15 11:45:41 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:41 :: dhcpcd[4886]: DUID <duid>
2014/10/15 11:45:41 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:41 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: IAID <iaid>
2014/10/15 11:45:41 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:41 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: soliciting an IPv6 router
2014/10/15 11:45:41 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:41 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: soliciting a DHCP lease
2014/10/15 11:45:41 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:41 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: offered 192.168.0.26 from 192.168.0.1 `Qwest'
2014/10/15 11:45:41 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:41 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: hardware address <hwaddr> claims 192.168.0.26
2014/10/15 11:45:41 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:43 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: IAID <iaid>
2014/10/15 11:45:43 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:44 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: soliciting an IPv6 router
2014/10/15 11:45:44 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:45 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: soliciting a DHCP lease
2014/10/15 11:45:45 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:45 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: offered 192.168.0.27 from 192.168.0.1 `Qwest'
2014/10/15 11:45:45 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:45 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: NAK: from 192.168.0.1 `Qwest'
2014/10/15 11:45:45 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:45 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: soliciting a DHCP lease
2014/10/15 11:45:45 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:45 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: offered 192.168.0.27 from 192.168.0.1 `Qwest'
2014/10/15 11:45:45 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:45 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: NAK: from 192.168.0.1 `Qwest'
2014/10/15 11:45:45 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:46 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: soliciting a DHCP lease
2014/10/15 11:45:46 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:46 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: offered 192.168.0.27 from 192.168.0.1 `Qwest'
2014/10/15 11:45:46 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:46 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: NAK: from 192.168.0.1 `Qwest'
2014/10/15 11:45:46 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:48 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: soliciting a DHCP lease
2014/10/15 11:45:48 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:48 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: offered 192.168.0.27 from 192.168.0.1 `Qwest'
2014/10/15 11:45:48 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:48 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: NAK: from 192.168.0.1 `Qwest'
2014/10/15 11:45:48 :: 
2014/10/15 11:45:53 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: soliciting a DHCP lease
2014/10/15 11:45:53 :: 
2014/10/15 11:46:05 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: offered 192.168.0.26 from 192.168.0.1 `Qwest'
2014/10/15 11:46:05 :: 
2014/10/15 11:46:05 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: hardware address <hwaddr> claims 192.168.0.26
2014/10/15 11:46:05 :: 
2014/10/15 11:46:07 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: IAID <iaid>
2014/10/15 11:46:07 :: 
2014/10/15 11:46:08 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: soliciting a DHCP lease
2014/10/15 11:46:08 :: 
2014/10/15 11:46:08 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: soliciting an IPv6 router
2014/10/15 11:46:08 :: 
2014/10/15 11:46:08 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: offered 192.168.0.27 from 192.168.0.1 `Qwest'
2014/10/15 11:46:08 :: 
2014/10/15 11:46:08 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: NAK: from 192.168.0.1 `Qwest'
2014/10/15 11:46:08 :: 
2014/10/15 11:46:08 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: soliciting a DHCP lease
2014/10/15 11:46:08 :: 
2014/10/15 11:46:08 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: offered 192.168.0.27 from 192.168.0.1 `Qwest'
2014/10/15 11:46:08 :: 
2014/10/15 11:46:08 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: NAK: from 192.168.0.1 `Qwest'
2014/10/15 11:46:08 :: 
2014/10/15 11:46:10 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: soliciting a DHCP lease
2014/10/15 11:46:10 :: 
2014/10/15 11:46:10 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: offered 192.168.0.27 from 192.168.0.1 `Qwest'
2014/10/15 11:46:10 :: 
2014/10/15 11:46:10 :: dhcpcd[4886]: wlp2s0: NAK: from 192.168.0.1 `Qwest'
2014/10/15 11:46:10 :: 
2014/10/15 11:46:11 :: dhcpcd[4886]: timed out
2014/10/15 11:46:11 :: 
2014/10/15 11:46:11 :: DHCP connection failed
2014/10/15 11:46:11 :: exiting connection thread
2014/10/15 11:46:11 :: Sending connection attempt result dhcp_failed

Does anyone know what could be wrong with my dhcpcd? Or is the problem somewhere else? On the Wicd gui, I see it stuck at obtaining an ip address for a long time, then it says it can't connect. Also, for some reason my router only can do IPv4.

Note: I've tried switching Wicd to using dhclient instead of automatic. This allows wireless connections to connect, and I can ping any computer connected to my router, but I cannot ping google or any other site. Sending a ping to google will correctly get google's ip address, but it's always 100% packet loss after waiting a long time. The connection over dhclient also only lasts a few seconds to about a minute before Wicd displays it as no longer connected to wireless.

TheSaint

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Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 1,532

Re: dhcpcd timing out on wireless connections using wicd and wl module

Certain times the problem is done by the router, which might be too busy and fails to reply for a lease.

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do it good first, it will be faster than do it twice the saint

rsmarples

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Registered: 2009-05-12

Posts: 287

Re: dhcpcd timing out on wireless connections using wicd and wl module

Looks like a fault with your router.
You're first offered 192.168.0.26, but dhcpcd thinks another node on the network has it and this declines it.
It then offers you 192.168.0.27 which is then requested but then NAKed?

If dhclient accepted the .26 (which it will because it doesn't do ARP checking) and it "works", it's also going to cause conflicts with the other node with the same address.

So I suspect you have a few issues to resolve on your network - changing dhcp client won't automagically fix this.

avr

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Registered: 2014-09-25

Posts: 30

Re: dhcpcd timing out on wireless connections using wicd and wl module

I'm on my router's manage page and I don't see many options relating to DHCP. The router is a zyxel pk5000z

Do any of these settings look out of place?

DHCP Server: [enabled]

Modem IP address: 192.168.0.1
Beginning IP address: 192.168.0.2
Ending IP address: 192.168.0.254
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0

DHCP server lease time: 1 day

DHCP reservation: [enabled]

Under DHCP reservations:
Select MAC address: [manually enter MAC]
Manually add mac address: [empty]

Select an IP address to associate with a MAC address:
IP address: 192.168.0.29

DHCP reservation list:
Bunch of host names, mac addresses, and ip address of devices I've used with this router.

rsmarples

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Registered: 2009-05-12

Posts: 287

Re: dhcpcd timing out on wireless connections using wicd and wl module

Try clearing the reservation list and reboot your devices.