Re: dhclient fails for iwn0 when no security

[Andrew Cagney <andrew.cagney%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 17 June 2016 at 15:11, John D. Baker <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost> wrote:
>> This might be a case of a network using 40MHz wide channel. I have
>> personally experienced the same. it's faster for 802.11n, but it drops
>> legacy support for 802.11b/g, which uses 20MHz wide channels.
>
> I think this is unlikely since the Mac PowerBook G4 w/MacOS X 10.4.11
> worked fine and its factory-original "airport" card is 802.11b only.
> If I'd had a way to boot NetBSD/macppc on it I could have tested that
> combination as well.

Yes.  They are associating (if that's the correct word) - a tcpdump
shows traffic from everyone else.

I'll try the tip of the 7.x branch, thanks. (at least I wasn't going crazy :-)


> Also, the other devices (802.11a/b/g) were able to associate with the
> access point (status went from "no network" to "active").  If there
> was no support for b/g, I should think that wouldn't be possible.