On Sun, 30 May 2010 14:14:50 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > David Paleino <da...@debian.org> writes: > > Also, if the above doesn't work, would you please post > > /var/log/wicd/wicd.log , after enabling debugging mode? > > Here are the versions of the relevant software: > > ii dhcp3-client 3.1.3-2 > ii ifupdown 0.6.10 > ii wicd 1.7.0+ds1-5 > ii wicd-daemon 1.7.0+ds1-5 > > I also tried installing dhcpcd 1:3.2.3-5, but there was no change in > behavior. My /etc/network/interfaces file is very simple: > > === start === > # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system > # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). > > # The loopback network interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > === end ===
This should be fine. > iwconfig shows that the wireless network is up and associated with the > base station, and /var/log/syslog confirms. But I'm unable to get a DHCP > lease when the session is initiated by wicd on my home network. I'm > intermittantly able to get a DHCP lease on other networks via wicd, but it > often requires stopping the connection, unloading the wireless driver > (ath9k), reloading it, stopping and restarting wicd, and attempting a > connection again, or similar sorts of fiddling. What happens if you manually run these commands, in this exact order? wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c /var/lib/wicd/configurations/001310d30b2a -D wext iwconfig wlan0 essid -- Eyrie iwconfig wlan0 channel 3 iwconfig wlan0 ap 00:13:10:D3:0B:2A /sbin/dhclient -cf /var/lib/wicd/dhclient.conf wlan0 From the log, it really seems dhclient failing to get a lease, not wicd's fault: 2010/05/30 13:46:19 :: Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:19:7e:6c:60:92 2010/05/30 13:46:19 :: Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:19:7e:6c:60:92 2010/05/30 13:46:19 :: Sending on Socket/fallback 2010/05/30 13:46:23 :: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 [..] 2010/05/30 13:47:24 :: No DHCPOFFERS received. 2010/05/30 13:47:24 :: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. 2010/05/30 13:47:24 :: DHCP connection failed And wicd correctly parses this as "dhcp_failed" (btw, I also see a traceback in the log, but that should be harmless, or at least not much relevant to this bug) I also see that dhcpcd itself fails: 2010/05/30 13:55:52 :: /sbin/dhcpcd -h wanderer --noipv4ll wlan0 [..] 2010/05/30 13:56:12 :: err, wlan0: timed out (in the log, all the "iwconfig wlan0" lines are wicd trying to determine the network status) > Attached are the results of the insserv test suite and the wicd.log. The > wicd.log shows multiple attempts, including some with dhcpcd instead of > dhclient. I've replaced instances of my passphrase with <passphrase>. > Note that this is a fairly old base station that only does WEP. > > If I stop wicd and then manually add the wireless configuration into > /etc/network/interfaces like: > > === start === > allow-hotplug wlan0 > auto wlan0 > iface wlan0 inet dhcp > dns-nameservers 171.64.7.121 171.64.7.77 171.64.7.99 171.64.7.55 > dns-search stanford.edu > wireless-essid Eyrie > wireless-ap 00:13:10:d3:0b:2a > wireless-key <key> restricted > wireless-channel 3 > === end === > > and then run ifup wlan0, everything works great and I get a DHCP lease > immediately. Can you run "ifup --verbose wlan0", and attach it here? (I hope that gives us enough information). > Note that while this configuration forces the AP, running iwconfig while wicd > was trying showed an association, so I don't think missing configuration > there is what's going on. Well, wicd succeeds at associating, it (wicd itself, or DHCP clients) just doesn't get an IP <g> :) Thanks for your time and help, David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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