F19: Wireless not working - dhclient not running?

Mihai T. Lazarescu mtlagm at gmail.com
Tue Aug 27 16:16:15 UTC 2013


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 04:57:04PM +0100, John Horne wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 11:18 -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Mihai T. Lazarescu <mtlagm at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >         Check also if the MAC and name of the WiFi interface in the
> >         user
> >         configuration of NetworkManager matches that of the hardware.
> > 
> > 
> > I too would suggest that you double-check that the MAC address -- just
> > last week I got the same symptoms from a system where the config files
> > thought that the MAC should be one thing, and the actual MAC address
> > was different.
> >
> The wireless adapter hasn't changed, and the same config files
> (wpa_supplicant.conf, ifcfg-wlan0) are being used that worked with F17.
> 
> As said, if I run 'ifdown wlan0 && ifup wlan0' then the interface comes
> up. That wouldn't happen if the MAC address was wrong.

MAC is stored in system filed (/etc/...) and user files
($HOME/...).  Check the latter.

Mihai


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