Thanks to Aitor (twice), Steve, Gregory, Simon for your informative suggestions.
Associating my broadcom bcm43228 adapter with the wifi router has been hit-and-miss, mostly miss with a rare, inexplicable success. I tried the usual suspects - upgrading the system, removing and reinstalling/reinserting the drivers. It's not worth beating my head much more over this dodgy driver. I can manage without wifi for now, at least until I can find a linux-friend USB wifi dongle. To respond to Steve, for 10+ years I've never had problems with wpa_supplicant. Perhaps bugs in the wifi hardware or FIRMWARE have caused your wpa_supplicant to hang. Anyway you have a solution. Again, thanks to all for your generous help. joel On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 09:21:54PM +0100, aitor wrote: > Hi Joel, > > On 11/3/22 20:40, Joel Roth via Dng wrote: > > Hi wifi veterans, > > > > I recently migrated my chimaera system to new hardware. The > > wifi adapter is Broadcom BCM43228. Installing the > > firmware-b43-installer package got this adapter working > > normally. > > > > After doing an apt-get upgrade, I can get a a wifi > > connection, for example using wpa_gui, however dhclient just > > times out. > > > > Do you have any suggestions for how to troubleshoot this? > > Did you clear the ip addreses? I use the command below together with ifupdown: > > #|ip addr flush dev wlan0| > > Another way might be to force DHCP client release your ip: > > # dhclient -r wlan0 > > # rm|/var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.wlan0.leases (!! Not sure about the name of the > file storing the leases)| > > # dhclient wlan0 > > This way you reacquire a fresh ip from the DHCP server.|| > > HTH, > > Aitor. > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
