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Old 10-20-2009, 10:50 PM
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Need wifi help with Window Maker

I want to use window maker as my main wm but I can't get my wifi to work in it. When I try sudo dhclient wlan0 to connect via dhcp, i get this in the terminal:
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twitch@twitch-laptop ~ $ sudo dhclient wlan0
[sudo] password for twitch: 
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:1f:3a:6f:74:2f
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:1f:3a:6f:74:2f
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
 * Reloading /etc/samba/smb.conf smbd only
   ...done.
I can't connect to any networks, regardless whether or not they're protected.
What should I do? I hate having to boot into gnome every time I want to access the internet.
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Old 10-22-2009, 02:48 PM
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Towards the bottom of this link: http://www.nabble.com/Windowmaker-an...d21703297.html there seems to be a solution for you.
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Old 10-23-2009, 02:18 AM
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Thanks! The ONE time i forget to search the forums for a solution, i probably could have found it easily. I'm posting this from WM now
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