F19: Wireless not working - dhclient not running?

g geleem at bellsouth.net
Tue Aug 27 18:37:51 UTC 2013



On 08/27/2013 01:02 PM, John Horne wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 12:36 -0500, g wrote:

>> obviously, wpa_supplicant is not getting started during startup.
>>
> Yes it is. The log file, /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log, shows this. If it
> wasn't started then 'ifup wlan0' wouldn't work. What isn't happening
> during startup - it seems - is dhclient running. And I can find no
> mention of that in the log files. It does run though when I use 'ifup'
> after startup. Hence running 'ifdown wlan0 && ifup wlan0' works. I'll
> need to see where dhclient gets started and see if I can crank up the
> logging/debugging.

ok. my bad.

so instead of adding a script with wpa_supplicant, add script with;

    ifdown wlan0
    sleep 10 s
    ifup wlan0

run;

    man dhclient

note the "-p -d -v" options

have you checked 'ifconfig" before and after you manually start wlan0?


-- 

peace out.

in a world with out fences, who needs gates.

sl6.3 linux

tc.hago.

g
.



More information about the users mailing list