dhcp timing out [SOLVED]

[BlakeJob]

Yesterday I arrived at my inlaws and I booted into linux but could not pick up their router (windows XP does just fine). Here is the script I am running (I use this script for other places without a problem). It should be noted that I lately did an emerge -u world and it installed a lot of things (it had been a month), but at home my wireless still ran without a problem afterwards.

Facts:
- they do not use encryption
- iwlist sees their router
- in the script below i've tried using iwconfig wlan0 ap instead of essid
- with the essid i put in the correct essid and i've tried it with and without quotations
- i'm using a broadcom driver (64bit, as i run 64 bit gentoo)
- todays ago i was able to connect to MY home router (i'm at a new router)
- I added the iwconfig wlan0 commit line after someone said to in another topic
- tcpdump is below
- dmesg and messages show nothing unusual (except messages shows that it timed out)
- i've tried the timeout period at 10, 20 and 60 seconds.
- i can connect to the router by wire just fine.

[BlakeJob]

So I tried using wpa_supplicant with debugging on instead of iwconfig. Here is the error I get from wpa_supplicant (again it is able to scan and see the router) when trying to connect:

[BlakeJob]

I am using kernel 2.6.13-r5

I tried compiling IOCTL support into the kernel but that did not help. I don't know how much i can take windows XP!

I've searched on Google and didn't come across anything. does anyone have an idea?

[BlakeJob]

*bump*

By the way I did try to reset the router, but that did not help.

[BlakeJob]

OK I finally got it!

So after trying this four hours upon hours I (including setting up wpa_supplicant) something weird, but good started happening. I would boot and run the script in the post above, and it would say dhcp already started.... [weird]... so anyways i decided to do /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 stop and it stopped! THIS IS WEIRD B/C IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE STARTED (as far as im concerned, b/c it was not in the runlevel and i do not know of any depends on it!). So then i ran script AS ROOT (sudo didn't do the trick) and it worked!!

So now i removed wpa_supplicant and updated by init script to be how it really should be (it was not setup correctly, it was just a home made script of mine). So anyways I set it up to have my home network and my in-laws, i then rebooted into my wireless runlevel and here I am typing this up.

[UberLord]