Re: connecting to a WPA secured wireless network often fails and takes a very long time

[Ted Lemon <mellon fugue com>]

Ertugrul Harman wrote:
> On 22/09/06, *Darren Albers* <dalbers gmail com
> <mailto:dalbers gmail com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     auto eth1
>     iface eth1 inet dhcp
> 
> 
> 
> After I replaced all the contents of /etc/network/interfaces with the
> above lines, the result is:
> 
> ertugrul eva:~$ sudo ifup eth1
> Password:
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
> Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
> 
> Listening on LPF/eth1/00:13:02:46:28:1e
> Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:13:02:46:28:1e
> Sending on   Socket/fallback
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 <http://255.255.255.255> port 67
> interval 6
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 <http://255.255.255.255> port 67
> interval 8
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 <http://255.255.255.255> port 67
> interval 18
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 <http://255.255.255.255> port 67
> interval 19
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 <http://255.255.255.255> port 67
> interval 10
> No DHCPOFFERS received.
> No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
> ertugrul eva:~$ sudo ifup eth1
> ifup: interface eth1 already configured

What does "iwconfig eth1" say at this juncture?