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fukawi2

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Wireless Network w/ WPA. DHCP Lease OK, 5 packets then dies.

OK, so I'm playing with getting wireless working on a desktop machine using a Netgear WG111 USB dongle.

ifup wlan0
iwconfig wlan0 essid "MyWLAN"
wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpasupplicant.conf
dhcpcd wlan0

All that appears to work fine. iwconfig says that it's associated and dhcpcd obtains an appropriate lease for my network (192.168.31.29/27), routing and nameservers are set correctly.

It even seems correct to the point that I can ping my gateway / dhcp server, but only 5 pings are sent, then the whole connection dies and I have to ifdown wlan0, killall dhcpcd etc and start from ifup.

Am I doing something wrong or is the Netgear dongle just dodgey?

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quarkup

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Registered: 2008-09-07

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Re: Wireless Network w/ WPA. DHCP Lease OK, 5 packets then dies.

you can use the flags -nd (rebind + debug) for dhcpcd to assure you get another connection.

could be your kit

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fukawi2

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Re: Wireless Network w/ WPA. DHCP Lease OK, 5 packets then dies.

Better late than never quarkup

I've long since given up on this project, but hopefully it might help someone else in future

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