dhclient and ralink wlan problem

[Juho Vuori]

Hello,

The new dhclient is not able to assign an IP address for my computer on 
one particular wlan-network (the public wlan of University of Helsinki). 
Everywhere else it works fine, both on wireless and wired networks.

Here is a log of what happens:

# ifconfig ral0
ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::208:a1ff:fe8a:d7cb%ral0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
        inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
        ether 00:08:a1:8a:d7:cb
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/1Mbps)
        status: no carrier
        ssid ""
        authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 bintval 100
# dhclient ral0
DHCPDISCOVER on ral0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on ral0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on ral0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on ral0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
DHCPDISCOVER on ral0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

# ifconfig ral0
ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::208:a1ff:fe8a:d7cb%ral0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
        inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
        ether 00:08:a1:8a:d7:cb
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/1Mbps)
        status: no carrier
        ssid "Univ Helsinki HUPnet" channel 1
        authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 protmode CTS bintval 100
#


Note that the ssid got set up correctly, but still no DHCP offer was 
received.

I'm happy to help debugging this, but I'm not exactly sure how to go on 
with this as I don't know how DHCP or WLAN work. tcpdump -i ral0 is 
unable to capture any packets of any type, which is wierd; some sort of 
packets definately were transported, as the computer got the ssid right.

Also, after a lot of trials, dhclient starts complaining about full send 
buffer, suggesting the problem is at least partly in the ral-driver, 
which for some reason is unable to send DHCP-packets.

And also related to that, when I tried to detach the (PCMCIA) WLAN-card 
in order to reset the driver and the send buffer, the machine  just 
reset itself.

I'm running RELENG_6 as of friday the 5th.

Cheers,
Juho Vuori