[TriLUG] Wireless Woes

[Warren Myers]

have they changed the authentication mechanism?

On 4/12/07, Trevor Little <trevormg19 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey everybody,
>     My company recently moved to a new building and I can no longer get on
> the
> wireless network. I'm running Suse 10.1 on a Dell d620 and the wireless
> works
> fine everyplace but work (go figure).  Here's what happens when I run
> dhclient from the command line:
>
> emenescu:~ # dhclient wlan0
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
> Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
>
> Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:16:ce:3a:e8:ad
> Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:16:ce:3a:e8:ad
> Sending on   Socket/fallback
> DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> ip length 318 disagrees with bytes received 534.
> accepting packet with data after udp payload.
> DHCPACK from 192.168.2.1
> bound to 192.168.2.112 -- renewal in 1549 seconds.
>
> So as you can see I can talk to the raouter and even get an IP address but
> then I can't connect to anything. That "ip length 318 disagrees with bytes
> received 534." is probably the problem but I can't figure out what exactly
> it
> means. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Trevor
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