On 19/12/13 01:32 AM, Charlie wrote:
On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 01:09:03 -0500 Frank McCormick sent:It appears it is supported - I have the ralink-firmware installed, but when Debian (sid) boots it tries dhcpdiscover 255.255.255.255 about 10 times then gives up after getting no reply.There has been a recent thread about wireless. Some interesting information. I have no idea at all about wireless. Try 'iwconfig" as root and see what wlan should be seeking. I wore myself out putting wlan1 in my /etc/network/interfaces and jumping through all manner of hoops. It should have been wlan2 and when I changed it, all was well.
Well it's really frustrating! iwconfig output looks ok then again I am not really sure what I should be looking for.
root@frank-debian:/home/frank# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on
This is from syslog
Dec 19 10:17:37 frank-debian dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
Dec 19 10:17:44 frank-debian dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
Dec 19 10:17:52 frank-debian dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
Dec 19 10:18:02 frank-debian dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
Dec 19 10:18:17 frank-debian dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
Dec 19 10:18:29 frank-debian dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
Dec 19 10:18:38 frank-debian dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.Dec 19 10:18:38 frank-debian dhclient: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
This whole network business I find very confusing.