On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 21:59 +0100, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
Further debugging info is on http://www.pastebin.org/313335 if anyone fancied sparing a glance. (Otherwise the drill will have to come out......and my DIY skills are on a par with my hardware skills).
Looking at the log at around Jun 6 20:239:29 shows something weird going on with DHCP. What is supposed to happen is this:
1. Client needing IP address sends a DHCPDISCOVER to the broadcast address.
2. One or more DHCP servers send DHCPOFFERs.
3. Client picks one offer and sends back a DHCPREQUEST to take up the offer.
4. Server sends a DHCPACK confirming the lease.
In the above your machine would be the client. The log only shows outgoing packets but one would assume a DHCPOFFER must have been received for the DHCPREQUEST to be sent.
I wonder if the client is associating to your router as its access point or whether there is another one nearby with the same SSID. You could try changing the SSID of your router to something less generic and see if that fixes the problem. You could also try rebooting your wireless access point as it may have simply become confused.
HTH, Steve.