Wireless Problems

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jan 18, 2008, at 07:39, TARogue wrote:

> The really weird part of this is the fact that wireless was working  
> when
> we left to get my boy from school. After shopping in Concord we got  
> back
> around 18.00 and now nothing I know can make it go again.

Not sure where you live - could your neighbor have plugged in a new  
AP while you were out, and now you're associating to the wrong one?

> /var/log/messages says this:
> Jan 18 07:05:03 newfear dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware  
> address type 801
> Jan 18 07:05:03 newfear dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware  
> address type 801
>
> First question: what is wmaster0?
> Second question: what does "unknown hardware address type 801" mean?

My guess is before that in syslog you're seeing 'listening on wifi0,  
listening on wmaster0', and then it sees wmaster0 isn't an ethernet  
type it knows how to do DHCP on, but you should be able to safely  
ignore that if it's doing wifi0.  Google seems to say that wmaster0  
is involved with WPA supplicant, but I haven't tried it myself.

Do you have SELinux on?

-Bill

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