I have completed a more in depth analysis. Things work correctly from wired ethernet ports and from wireless using the identical dhcp server version.
It seems that while the wireless is reporting signal/noise statistics, it's not actually associating correctly to the AP (but the AP, running HermesAP does log the association), thus packets are not being received on the server. Have not had problems with commodity APs, nor with a Prism card running in Master mode, so I suspect the problem is between madwifi-ng and HermesAP. -- Can no longer aquire IP address from certain DHCP servers https://launchpad.net/bugs/57403 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs