I’m getting some timeout issues I’ve never had before, after running a massive pacman upgrade on my Arch install. Anyone else seen these issues before? I’m able to make connections, list networks, etc., but when it comes to running dhcpcd it just fails hardcore.
$ sudo dhcpcd wlan0 --debug
dhcpcd[944]: version 5.5.6 starting
dhcpcd[944]: wlan0: using hwaddr 00:c0:ca:57:06:38
dhcpcd[944]: wlan0: executing `/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks', reason PREINIT
dhcpcd[944]: wlan0: executing `/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks', reason CARRIER
dhcpcd[944]: wlan0: sending IPv6 Router Solicitation
dhcpcd[944]: wlan0: broadcasting for a lease
dhcpcd[944]: wlan0: sending DISCOVER (xid 0xa21e746e), next in 3.84 seconds
dhcpcd[944]: wlan0: sending DISCOVER (xid 0xa21e746e), next in 8.89 seconds
dhcpcd[944]: wlan0: sending IPv6 Router Solicitation
dhcpcd[944]: wlan0: sending IPv6 Router Solicitation
dhcpcd[944]: wlan0: sending IPv6 Router Solicitation
dhcpcd[944]: wlan0: no IPv6 Routers available
dhcpcd[944]: wlan0: sending DISCOVER (xid 0xa21e746e), next in 15.41 seconds
dhcpcd[944]: wlan0: sending DISCOVER (xid 0xa21e746e), next in 32.92 seconds
dhcpcd[944]: timed out
$ uname -a
Linux archer 3.4.4-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jun 24 18:59:47 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ ifconfig wlan0
wlan0: flags=4163 mtu 1500 metric 1
inet6 fe80::2c0:caff:fe57:638 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20
ether 00:c0:ca:57:06:38 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 30 bytes 6264 (6.1 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
$ iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"nucleocide"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: 00:18:F8:75:60:80
Bit Rate=36 Mb/s Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-9 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:1 Invalid misc:10 Missed beacon:0
I find that there is a little bit of time delay when issuing the initial command “wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf”. After some repeated tries, “dhcpcd wlan0″ works fine. Kinda made it painful to automate at boot. Will send updates when I find the best interval.
Did you ever solved this problem? Since yesterday I’m getting the same error. (And now posting from an internet cafe).
I’m reallt sorry about posting in an old entry, but seems (as far as my googling has gone so far) that you have resolved the issue, so I would be extremely grateful if you might give me some orientation.
I think I had to switch to a different physical device for it to work. Try finding an RTL8187 USB card if you can.