dhclient wlan0

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balanga

When booting dhclient gets into a loop trying to assign an IP address to wlan0. I need to break out of the process for boot to carry on.

There seem to be a number of options
Code: 
#ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP"
#ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
#ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP"

What are the differences, and which should I use?

I notice that the DHCPDiscover msgs are not recorded by dmesg. Is that to be expected?
 
I believe WPA_SYNCDHCP is the latest and suggested by the handbook. The other way is to have nothing in rc.conf and do it manually after booting with something like sudo wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. This is assuming you've already done the ifconfig wlan0 create wlandevice iwn0 (or whatever your wireless card is).
 
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