Connection to wireless network - wpa

Helmut Schaa hschaa at suse.de
Mon Oct 1 08:04:29 CEST 2007


Am Freitag, 28. September 2007 17:12:55 schrieb Uwe Brauer:
> Hello
>
> With respect to your message from 27 of June, I would like to ask you
> the following, given your configuration file I tried to connect
> manually in the following way
> sudo wpa_supplicant -B -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wirless.conf -D wext
> sudo dhclient eth1
>
> But I receive
> DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
> No DHCPOFFERS received.
>
> And indeed I obtain no IP number.

Does this only happen with KNM?
Does it work with nm-applet?

> When I try it via the kde-networkmanager interface it seems that
> my request is somehow cut.
>
> My identity is oub at mat.ucm.es
> but the system manager of my university tell me they only receive
> oub@

Which identity? WPA-EAP?

> Which of course is not correct.
>
> Can anybody help me?
>
> Uwe Brauer

Regards,
Helmut


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