VirtualBox Bridged Networking (wifi) not working

So there is a bit of info thats required for this.

First of all, my network looks like this:

PFSense --> squid & dhcp --> wireless router

Squid handles DNS/DHCP, non-virtual clients pull ips fine regardless of the connection (wifi/wired).

However, when I fire up virtualbox and bridge to the wireless network, the vm never gets an IP, in fact I never actually see the dhcp request hit the server (from the server's point of view). I haven't done a wireshark yet but I was wondering if anyone has any clue whats going on. Plugging into the to a switch allows wired bridging to work as expected

The wierder thing is that if I join someone else's wireless network the vm pulls an IP just fine.

Anyone have any ideas?

Check out the second note in the Bridged Networking section.

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_bridged

It doesn't explain why you get an IP address from one server and not another, but if I'm reading it right it does explain why your not seeing any requests on the server.

I didnt even think to RTFM, I just assumed it was user error.

Thanks, I still need to run a wireshark while trying to connect. I suppose its possible the type of wireless router that I am connecting to makes a difference