[Cialug] Wireless Issues

[David Champion]

A couple of things to try - look for a dhclient process that's still 
hanging around, and kill it before running dhclient again.

If you have your wlan0 set to start automatically, you can run "service 
network restart" on most redhat-ish OS's, which will attempt to shut 
down all of your network interfaces and bring them back up again.

I've also seen cases where there's a stale dhcp lease, don't recall 
where those hide, probably somewhere like /var/cache. I've had to 
manually delete those to get a new dhcp lease to work.

-dc

Terry A. Haimann wrote:
> I have laptop running FC10, where I use Wicd as my Wireless Network 
> Manaager.  About 80% of the time when I go to a hotspot, it connects 
> without any problems.  Of the 20% of the time when Wicd fails, it just 
> comes up saying that it is waiting to be granted an ip address.
> On most of those occasions, I am able to connect using a little program 
> I wrote, which just issues the following commands:
>
> ifconfig wlan0 up
> iwlist wlan0 scan
>
> The program takes the output from the scan and formats into a easily 
> readable format and lets me chose which network to attach to and then 
> issues the:
>
> iwconfig wlan0 essid <network>
>
> I then have to issue the "dhclient wlan0" command manually, since that 
> isn't a program but is a BASH Script and I haven't been able to run 
> scripts from within Lazarus/Free Pascal.
>
> On some occasions, dhclient just times out and there is no way that I 
> know of to connect.  I do notice that Windows users around me are 
> connecting without any issues.
>
> Now Wicd has the ability to use a couple of other programs to get the ip 
> address, "dhcpcd" and "pump".  These programs are not in the  Fedora 
> Repositories.  Should I hunt down the rpm's or even the source code and 
> compile them or am I dealing with other issues?
>
> Thx in advance,   Terry H.
>
>
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