Comment 4 for bug 139812

hmmm .... seem to be having the same problem on a customer site of mine too ..... they're running eepc's with xandros though?!
using dhclient for the dhcp and iface for managing the hardware interface. From checking the logs, iface does kill existing pid files here but i still seem to get the problem.

running an onboard atheros wireless card connecting to a buffallo access point with wep

I'm seeing exactly the same log entries as above.

One thing i did stumble across was ...... connect the device to the network via a hard-wired connection first so it collects an address then disconnect it and try the wireless connection. It picks up a different address as you'd expect but seems to then connect fine with the couple of machines i've tried here.

I'm no debugger by any means but it seems to be a definite issue with the dhcp acknowledgement or a handshake problem through the encryption maybe?

Perhaps this is a slightly more widespread issue than first thought given that i'm seeing it with xandros? I also run my laptop on ubuntu hardy with an intel pro and i think i'm getting the same problem on that aswell but to be fair, my builds not exactly stable so take that bit with a pinch of salt :)