OpenSUSE 10.3 Dell Inspiron 8500 Dell TrueMobile 1300 wifi card (Broadcom, I think) Using ndiswrapper. Wired = eth0 Wireless = eth1 For about a week the wireless worked A-Ok - both in my home and my office - both using WPA2, both using hidden SSIDs, and both serving IPs via DHCP. Sunday night I was using the laptop to transfer files from my network to a remote device that is unable to go wireless. I'd download a file on the laptop, using the wireless. THEN, in KNetworkManager I'd click on the Wired Network (eth0). This would disconnect the wireless (eth1), and enable the wired. Within YAST, Network Devices, I configured a static IP on the wired NIC. At the time I think I also configured a static IP on the wireless, to see if I could use both NIC (on both networks) simultaneously, so I could more conveniently transfer files between the two networks. (I wasn't really expecting to have the laptop function as a router or bridge - more, I'd manually get files to the laptop from the wireless LAN, and then manually ftp them to the wired device, from the laptop.) Yesterday morning I discovered that my wireless card no longer picks up IP addresses via DHCP. The wired NIC will. Each time I try to connect to a wireless network using KNetworkManager, the connection is established, but the dialogue stalls out at 57%, "IP configuration started." Within YAST, I de-selected the 'enable IPv6' checkbox on the wireless card. I tried configuring the wireless card to be in the 'external zone' for the firewall. If I configure the wireless to use a static IP, and set the default gateway myself, I can connect to the LAN wirelessly. * DNS servers are STILL being set through DHCP. * The logs seem to me to show that the response from the DHCP server is ignored when I try to grab an IP address for the wireless card. Yet everything works properly for the wired card. In fact, when the wireless NIC times out tryign to obtain an IP, the wired automatically just connects and gets an IP perfectly, every time. I'm skeptical this has anything to do with encryption. KNetworkManager shows an unencrypted network (presumably from a neighboring office), and I see the exact same behavior if I try to attach to it. Sorry the included log is so long, but I didn't want to leave out anything useful. If I look at /var/log/messages, I see: (beginning from where I switched from wired to wireless, using KNetworkManager) : Oct 30 11:45:47 inspiron8500 dhclient: caught deadly SIGTERM Oct 30 11:45:47 inspiron8500 dhclient: could not restore resolv.conf: No such file or directory Oct 30 11:45:47 inspiron8500 dhclient: DHCPRELEASE on eth0 to 206.233.8.30 port 67 Oct 30 11:45:48 inspiron8500 avahi-daemon[2848]: Withdrawing address record for 206.233.8.75 on eth0. Oct 30 11:45:48 inspiron8500 avahi-daemon[2848]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 206.233.8.75. Oct 30 11:45:48 inspiron8500 avahi-daemon[2848]: Interface eth0.IPv4 no longer relevant for mDNS. Oct 30 11:45:54 inspiron8500 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2 Oct 30 11:45:55 inspiron8500 kernel: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 206.233.8.30, on dev eth0 Oct 30 11:45:55 inspiron8500 kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:06:5b:fd:36:24:08:00 Oct 30 11:45:56 inspiron8500 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 Oct 30 11:45:56 inspiron8500 kernel: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 206.233.8.30, on dev eth0 Oct 30 11:45:56 inspiron8500 kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:06:5b:fd:36:24:08:00 Oct 30 11:46:01 inspiron8500 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 Oct 30 11:46:01 inspiron8500 kernel: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 206.233.8.30, on dev eth0 Oct 30 11:46:01 inspiron8500 kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:06:5b:fd:36:24:08:00 Oct 30 11:46:12 inspiron8500 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17 Oct 30 11:46:12 inspiron8500 kernel: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 206.233.8.30, on dev eth0 Oct 30 11:46:12 inspiron8500 kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:06:5b:fd:36:24:08:00 Oct 30 11:46:29 inspiron8500 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20 Oct 30 11:46:29 inspiron8500 kernel: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 206.233.8.30, on dev eth0 Oct 30 11:46:29 inspiron8500 kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:06:5b:fd:36:24:08:00 Oct 30 11:46:35 inspiron8500 dhclient: caught deadly SIGTERM Oct 30 11:46:35 inspiron8500 dhclient: could not restore resolv.conf: No such file or directory Oct 30 11:46:35 inspiron8500 dhclient: DHCPRELEASE on eth1 to 192.168.3.1 port 67 Oct 30 11:46:35 inspiron8500 dhclient: send_packet: Network is unreachable Oct 30 11:46:35 inspiron8500 dhclient: send_packet: please consult README file regarding broadcast address. Oct 30 11:46:40 inspiron8500 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 Oct 30 11:46:41 inspiron8500 dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 206.233.8.30 Oct 30 11:46:41 inspiron8500 kernel: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 206.233.8.30, on dev eth0 Oct 30 11:46:41 inspiron8500 kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:06:5b:fd:36:24:08:00 Oct 30 11:46:45 inspiron8500 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 Oct 30 11:46:45 inspiron8500 kernel: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 206.233.8.30, on dev eth0 Oct 30 11:46:45 inspiron8500 kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:06:5b:fd:36:24:08:00 Oct 30 11:46:45 inspiron8500 dhclient: DHCPACK from 206.233.8.30 Oct 30 11:46:45 inspiron8500 dhclient: bound to 206.233.8.105 -- renewal in 1585 seconds. Oct 30 11:46:45 inspiron8500 avahi-daemon[2848]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 206.233.8.105. Oct 30 11:46:45 inspiron8500 avahi-daemon[2848]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS. Oct 30 11:46:45 inspiron8500 avahi-daemon[2848]: Registering new address record for 206.233.8.105 on eth0.IPv4. Oct 30 11:46:50 inspiron8500 ntpdate[6185]: adjust time server 64.202.112.75 offset 0.047531 sec Oct 30 11:46:50 inspiron8500 ntpd[6202]: ntpd 4.2.4p3@1.1502-o Sat Sep 22 01:01:25 UTC 2007 (1) Oct 30 11:46:50 inspiron8500 ntpd[6203]: precision = 2.000 usec Oct 30 11:46:50 inspiron8500 ntpd[6203]: ntp_io: estimated max descriptors: 1024, initial socket boundary: 16 Oct 30 11:46:50 inspiron8500 ntpd[6203]: Listening on interface #0 wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123 Disabled Oct 30 11:46:50 inspiron8500 ntpd[6203]: Listening on interface #1 lo, 127.0.0.1#123 Enabled Oct 30 11:46:50 inspiron8500 ntpd[6203]: Listening on interface #2 eth0, 206.233.8.105#123 Enabled Oct 30 11:46:50 inspiron8500 ntpd[6203]: kernel time sync status 0040 Oct 30 11:46:50 inspiron8500 ntpd[6203]: frequency initialized -49.267 PPM from /var/lib/ntp/drift/ntp.drift Oct 30 11:46:51 inspiron8500 SuSEfirewall2: Setting up rules from /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 ... Oct 30 11:46:51 inspiron8500 SuSEfirewall2: batch committing... Oct 30 11:46:51 inspiron8500 SuSEfirewall2: Firewall rules successfully set Any ideas what might have changed, and why I can no longer get an IP via DHCP, wirelessly? Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org