Grant wrote: >Hello, I'm having trouble connecting to APs other than the one at my >home. I use wpa_supplicant and the madwifi-driver (ath0). What can I >do to debug this? Right now all I see is a timeout. Please let me >know if you might be able to help. > >
Hi Grant, I will try to get wpa_suppliicant running here at my hotel tonight, and let you know if I learn anything useful. I'm in France, so that would be during the day Friday your time. That is if I have time before drinking or brain cells left afterwards!! In the mean time, you could try bypassing wpa_supplicant and configure the network manually with iwconfig. Something like 'iwconfig ath0 essid "blahblah"' followed by "dhcpcd -i eth0" should get the interface configured and running. If it is just that you cannot get a DHCP address, you might try emerging one or both of net-misc/pump and net-misc/dhcp. This will give you two alternate DHCP clients (pump and dhclient) that may have better luck getting you an address. I've seen pump work in some hotels where dhcpcd didn't, although not recently. I'm currently using dhclient. If that doesn't help, you can try running 'tcpdump -i ath0 -n' (or ethereal) while attempting to connect and see if that shows you anything interesting. HTH. -Richard -- [email protected] mailing list
