argh -- can't get wireless in someone else's house

[Alan J. Gagne]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   i'm embarrassed to admit that i can't, for the life of me, get a
> wireless connection at a friend's house at the moment.  updated fedora
> 8, and a stock linksys WRT54GL.  i have the SSID, i have the WEP key,
> i even have the router password, so i've logged in and checked
> everything -- no MAC filtering, no DHCP client limit, etc.
>
>   but when i try to bring up wireless, /var/log/messages shows me:
>
> Feb  8 08:37:59 localhost dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
> Feb  8 08:37:59 localhost dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
> Feb  8 08:37:59 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> Feb  8 08:38:07 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
> ...
> Feb  8 08:39:00 localhost dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
>
>   i can certainly see the WAP:
>
> # iwlist wlan0 scan
> ...
> Cell 02 - Address: 00:18:39:6A:01:EF
>                     ESSID:"XXXXXXXX"
>                     Mode:Master
>                     Channel:6
>                     Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
>                     Quality=83/100 Signal level=-46 dBm  Noise level=-67 dBm
>                     Encryption key:on
>                     Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
>                               24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
>                               12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
> ...
>
>
>   i'm pretty much out of ideas here -- any thoughts?
>
> rday
> --
>
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> Robert P. J. Day
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>   
I get the exact same situation  at home with my linksys router (probably 
not router related) when
I do not have broadcast ssid on. Start broadcating the ssid and I make a 
connection no problem.


Alan