Wireless Network Card Installation

Mike Sacauskis mikejs at mbay.net
Sun May 23 14:38:39 UTC 2010 

Those logs give me some information, but nothing that helps debug the 
problem.  When I run the network configuration utility from 
System->Administration->Network and try activating the connection the error 
ends ub being "No DHCPOFFERS RECEIVED" .  When I run the network manager 
from the upper right hand corner of the menu bar I get the following:

 May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) starting 
connection 'BillyO-PC_Network' 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state 
change: 3 -> 4 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 
of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled... 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 
of 5 (Device Prepare) started... 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 
of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled... 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 
of 5 (Device Prepare) complete. 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 
of 5 (Device Configure) starting... 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state 
change: 4 -> 5 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0/wireless): 
access point 'BillyO-PC_Network' has security, but secrets are required. 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state 
change: 5 -> 6 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 
of 5 (Device Configure) complete. 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 
of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled... 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 
of 5 (Device Prepare) started... 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state 
change: 6 -> 4 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 
of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled... 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 
of 5 (Device Prepare) complete. 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 
of 5 (Device Configure) starting... 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state 
change: 4 -> 5 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0/wireless): 
connection 'BillyO-PC_Network' has security, and secrets exist.  No new 
secrets needed. 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Config: added 'ssid' value 
'BillyO-PC_Network' 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Config: added 'scan_ssid' 
value '1' 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Config: added 'key_mgmt' 
value 'WPA-PSK' 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Config: added 'psk' value 
'<omitted>' 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 
of 5 (Device Configure) complete. 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Config: set interface 
ap_scan to 1 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant 
connection state:  scanning -> disconnected 
May 23 07:31:40 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant 
connection state:  disconnected -> scanning 
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant 
connection state:  scanning -> associating 
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant 
connection state:  associating -> associated 
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant 
connection state:  associated -> 4-way handshake 
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant 
connection state:  4-way handshake -> group handshake 
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant 
connection state:  group handshake -> completed 
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0/wireless) 
Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) successful.  Connected to wireless network 
'BillyO-PC_Network'. 
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 3 
of 5 (IP Configure Start) scheduled. 
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 3 
of 5 (IP Configure Start) started... 
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state 
change: 5 -> 7 
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Beginning 
DHCP transaction. 
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  dhclient started with pid 
8605 
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 3 
of 5 (IP Configure Start) complete. 
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 
V3.0.5-RedHat
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX dhclient: Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems 
Consortium.
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX dhclient: All rights reserved.
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX dhclient: For info, please visit 
http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX dhclient: 
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  DHCP: device wlan0 state 
changed normal exit -> preinit 
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX dhclient: Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:26:5a:e8:f0:21
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX dhclient: Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:26:5a:e8:f0:21
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX dhclient: Sending on   Socket/fallback
May 23 07:31:41 mjsLINUX dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 
port 67 interval 8
May 23 07:31:49 mjsLINUX dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 
port 67 interval 21
May 23 07:32:10 mjsLINUX dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 
port 67 interval 14
May 23 07:32:24 mjsLINUX dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 
port 67 interval 7
May 23 07:32:26 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Device 'wlan0' DHCP 
transaction took too long (>45s), stopping it. 
May 23 07:32:26 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  wlan0: canceled DHCP 
transaction, dhcp client pid 8605 
May 23 07:32:26 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 
of 5 (IP Configure Timeout) scheduled... 
May 23 07:32:26 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 
of 5 (IP Configure Timeout) started... 
May 23 07:32:26 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state 
change: 7 -> 9 
May 23 07:32:26 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) failed 
for access point (BillyO-PC_Network) 
May 23 07:32:26 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Marking connection 
'BillyO-PC_Network' invalid. 
May 23 07:32:26 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) failed. 
May 23 07:32:26 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 
of 5 (IP Configure Timeout) complete. 
May 23 07:32:26 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state 
change: 9 -> 3 
May 23 07:32:26 mjsLINUX NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): deactivating device 
(reason: 0). 


I googled that and there were no solutions to the problem.  Any help would be 
greatly appreciated

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Pearson" <karlp at ourldsfamily.com>
To: mikejs at mbay.net,        "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" 
<redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 23:14:35 -0600
Subject: Re: Wireless Network Card Installation

> On Sat, May 22, 2010 9:00 pm, Mike Sacauskis wrote:
> > I'm just installed redhat and am trying to configure the wireless
> > network card.  It fails when I try to activate it with.  It does not
> > provide any more information other than it failed.  I'm using a d-link N
> > extreme PCI express card.  Is there a log that I can get more
> > information about the failure?
> 
> You might look in /var/log/messages when you try to activate it. Do
> 
> tailf /var/log/messages
> 
> as root, or do
> 
> sudo tailf /var/log/messages
> 
> if you've entered your login to the sudoers file (/etc/sudoers)
> 
> Also, you might try installing and activating NetworkManager and
> NetworkManager-gnome
> 
> Karl
> 
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