[Wolves] Debian Wheezy wlan problems

[Simon Burke]

Definitely,

I can remove the DHCP lease from our DHCP server and when I connect again I
get a new IP address, so the connect ionis at least partly there. It just
seems anything beyond that is just not going as expected.

Thanks,
Simon.

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Andy Wootton <andy.wootton at gmail.com>wrote:

> Are you sure you are connected rather than using an IP address cached
> locally from last time you were on a hard connection?
> On Feb 20, 2012 3:50 PM, "Claire" <lug at sitesearcher.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 20/02/12 13:17, Simon Burke wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry I don't post often, but I'm having one of those days today.
>>>
>>> I'm running Debian Wheeze on my Lenovo SL300 laptop, with 3.2.0 kernel.
>>> I generally don't use the wireless on here except when I'm out and
>>> about, so that's not often. Hence I've only noticed the issue this
>>> morning. For some reason when I connect to a wireless network (any
>>> wlan), I get and ip address from DHCP fine, routing table also looks
>>> fine. However I am unable to contact anything on the network.
>>> The laptop can ping itself on the DHCP address but that is it.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions as to what the heck is going on? or what I am missing?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Simon.
>>>
>>
>> It sounds like it may be to do with the encryption(wpa_supplicant), if
>> you connect to an unecrypted network is it still the same?
>>
>> Claire
>>
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