DHCP timeout for WPA-encrypted WLAN network

[Steve0 Grobler]

when using wicd does the same thing happen when you use a static ip? if not
i would say that the problem is either your dhcp server(running on router or
on a seperate pc) that's not set up correctly or much more likely it will be
that your dhclient is messed up for some reason, but this will also indicate
that the problem is not neceassarily wicd specific. I had issues at home
where my dhclient would timeout some of the times before a response could be
received. what i did was i added my wireless cards mac adddress to my
routers' dhcp iptable with a hardcoded ip address assigned to that mac
address. That worked fine for me, but with todays technologies you never
know!

2009/9/11 Wolfgang Jeltsch <4cqncnl7 at acme.softbase.org>

> Am Freitag, 11. September 2009 13:20:57 schrieb Wolfgang Jeltsch:
> > Am Freitag, 11. September 2009 13:10:51 schrieb Steve0 Grobler:
> > > wicd is by far the sweetest network manager i used to date and would
> > > highly recommend it.
> >
> > So someone should tell the Ubuntu/Kubuntu developers that they should use
> > wicd instead of Network Manager in future Ubuntu/Kubuntu versions. :-)
>
> Sadly, I had no luck with wicd. With Network Manager, I wasn’t able to
> connect
> to a WPA-encrypted network but was able to connect to an unencrypted
> network.
> With wicd, I wasn’t able to connect to the same unencrypted network. The
> same
> problem as with Network Manager and the WPA network: my laptop couldn’t
> receive a DHCP answer. I didn’t try wicd with a WPA network since I don’t
> have
> any at hand at the moment.
>
> So I now use Network Manager again.
>
> Best wishes,
> Wolfgang
>
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