[driver-discuss] ifconfig wpi0 dhcp timed out...

[Cecilia Hu]

James Carlson Wrote:
> Venu Chennupati writes:
>> dladm connect-wifi fails with operation timed out
> 
> That indicates that the driver is not correctly associating with the
> access point.  I'm not sure why that happened, but many of the
> wireless driver folks hang out on the laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
> mailing list.
> 
>> ifconfig wpi0 dhcp is also timeout, I notice IP address assigned.
> 
> If there was a previous lease, then DHCP will fall back to that.  Do
> this to check for that case:
> 
> 	ifconfig wpi0 dhcp release
> 	ifconfig wpi0 dhcp start
> 
>> - Driver warnings are suspicious during this operations:
>>   1. wpi_init() failed to load firmware(text)
>>   2. wpi_init() timeout waiting for firmware init
> 
> That doesn't sound good at all.  That sounds like either broken or
> incompatible hardware.  You definitely should file a bug on the 'wpi'
> driver and include basic information about the system you're running
> (such as "prtconf -vp" output).

To help evaluate this issue, you may also try:
. static IP
. use dladm to configure network

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