ipw2200 and dhcp

Other than turning on the SSID broadcast, the only thing I can think of is to use either ethereal or tcpdump to see what happens to the DHCP request packets. I know that sometimes my router doesn't respond on the first request, but usually it does and it always does on the second request if I need to go that far.

Thanks for all the help Hangdog, I have been able to resolve my issue thanks to an update from the ipw2200 driver team.

This is if you are using the driver from source, else you need to wait for the 1.0.7 release of the ipw2200 driver.

download this patch http://people.redhat.com/pjones/ipw2200/broadcast.patch

download and untar the ipw2200 if you don't still have it. after untarring the driver:

cd ipw2200-1.0.6
patch < broadcast.patch
make
make install

Great! And many thanks for posting your solution. I'm sure you're not the only one to run into this.

I have the same problem but with an ipw2915 card. I'm already running the 1.0.8 drivers so that patch can't solve the problem. Any other ideas?

I've pretty much exhausted my ideas in the previous posts. Have you tried any of them and if so, what is happening? I would suggest turning on the SSID broadcast at your access point as the first thing to try. It's easy and works in an annoying number of cases.

killing dhcpcd and running it again did the trick for me. thnx