Wireless network problem after upgrade to 8.04

[Derek Broughton]

Ken McLennan wrote:

> G'day there Paul,
... 
>> So in the terminal again, make sure the network-manager is running
>>
>> # /etc/init.d/network-manager restart
>>   
>     I don't have a 'network-manager' there, only a 'networking' entry.
> Is that the same?

Ahem.  Paul, network-manager doesn't start out of init.d, it starts from
dbus:  "sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager restart"

>     If it's any use, this is the result of stopping & starting the
> init.d/networking command:
... 
> wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
> wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
> Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:19:d2:75:cf:ff
> Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:19:d2:75:cf:ff
> Sending on   Socket/fallback
> Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
>     SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.

That looks rather serious.

> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
> No DHCPOFFERS received.
> No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

I think your problem is at the gateway.  Tell us how you have it configured
(if nothing else, maybe I'll figure out how to get bridging working
properly from my Virtualbox machine! :-) )
-- 
derek