Return-path: Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:33934 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755428Ab0JZRh2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:37:28 -0400 Received: by eye27 with SMTP id 27so5509842eye.19 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:37:27 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1287995967.3587.9.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:37:26 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Modifying the driver iwlwifi From: Blaise Gassend To: "Cassiano Tartari, Eng." Cc: Johannes Berg , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > what is a "agressive DHCP client" ? I saw in the manual, there a lot > of telnet commans for DHCP One that doesn't start by waiting a few seconds, to start with. I'm thinking about a client that immediately tries to get a lease, and does retries within a few hundred ms at most if it doesn't get a response. dhclient definitely isn't an aggressive dhcp client. It isn't supposed to be. > I tryed: > sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode managed freq 2.437G rate 1M frag 256 key open > essid 'cassiano-PC_AP' > > But when I try to run: > sudo dhclient wlan0 > > return: "No DHCPOFFERS received" > > And I need to do this because my code will connect automatic. Using > the networkManager (ubuntu) the connection appears to occur fast. I can't debug your setup for you, and I suspect this list isn't the right place to do it... Have you checked that you actually associated to the AP? Have you tried using tcpdump to see if packets are making it out? Blaise