Problems with WPA-PSK and madwifi driver

[Eduardo Mendes]

Hello

Thanks.  I have tried dhclient -1 ath0 but the message was:

Unable to obtain a lease on the first time.   


Is there anything else that I can try?

Many thanks

Ed
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On Friday 11 February 2005 12:05 pm, Jonathan Buschmann wrote:
> I don't know what Mandrake uses for a dhcp client (fedora uses
> dhclient), but maybe you need to run it (again) after starting
> wpa_supplicant.
> jonathan
>
> Eduardo Mendes waxed wise and spake thus on 02/11/2005 11:23 AM:
> >On Thursday 10 February 2005 05:04 pm, Michael Reilly wrote:
> >>Eduardo Mendes wrote:
> >>>Hello
> >>>
> >>>Many thanks but unfortunately it didn't work. The two lights are
> >
> >blinking
> >
> >>>together but ifconfig shows that no valid ip was assigned to ath0.
> >>
> >>My lights both blink together for a second and then they stop blinking
> >>together with madwifi.  A few seconds later they blink together again
> >
> >and
> >
> >>then stop again.  Are they blinking together continuously for you?
> >
> >In my case the lights blink together in equal time intervals.  It seems
> >that
> >the card is somehow connected to the router but it can't get a valid ip
> >address.  I don't know what I am doing wrong.
> >
> >Here is the output of iwconfig and ifconfig after issuing the commands:
> >ifconfig ath0, iwconfig ath0 channel 1, wpa_supplicant
> >-c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dmadwifi -iath0 -d
> >
> >ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"eacghome.airlink"
> >          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412GHz  Access Point:
> >00:E0:98:4F:D8:B2
> >          Bit Rate:36Mb/s   Tx-Power:50 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
> >          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
> >          Encryption key:DF6D-E315-877A-4A16-22FD-239D-A8A8-0B6F
> >Security
> >mode:restricted
> >          Power Management:off
> >          Link Quality:49/94  Signal level:-46 dBm  Noise level:-95 dBm
> >          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
> >          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> >
> >
> >
> >ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:09:5B:C4:1A:E2
> >          inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fec4:1ae2/64 Scope:Link
> >          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >          RX packets:25 errors:19 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:19
> >          TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >          collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
> >          RX bytes:2418 (2.3 Kb)  TX bytes:1194 (1.1 Kb)
> >          Interrupt:9 Memory:d0a4a000-d0a5a000
> >
> >Any hints?
> >
> >Cheers
> >
> >Ed
> >
> >
> >
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