Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:31:48 -0400 From: kalin m <kalin@el.net> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd forgets root password Message-ID: <4AE26714.8060001@el.net> In-Reply-To: <4AE26337.8030001@el.net> References: <4AE250BF.8010902@el.net> <6201873e0910231846j4386baa9g3bd3eab21fed1727@mail.gmail.com> <4AE26337.8030001@el.net>
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> not really... i checked. many times. even for num loc. which doesn't > matter... > >> amnesiac is the name freebsd uses when no hostname is set. > in this Amnesiac is the release name i think... > >> man msk > many times.... msk should at least show in the dmesg somewhere.... >> >> >> >> now... the wireless card i put in. ralink technology. in the >> office here there is a simple wifi router that is "protected" with >> WPA password. if i get rid of the password and just use ifconfig >> to get to the router everything works ok but putting the wpa on >> again and using the supplicant things suck. ifconfig says the card >> is associated. and it gets an ip but that's pretty much all that >> happens. pings to a neighboring machine produce huge dropouts. >> with 85% packet loss. another awesomeness... and those are pings >> to ips. dns is pretty much nowhere to be found. sysisntall has >> <unknown network interface type> for ral0... >> >> >> This has always worked well for me: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html > that's where i got the wpa configuration from. also from man > wpa_supplicant and wpa_supplicant.conf. > > my conf looks like: > network={ > ssid="home" > scan_ssid=1 > key_mgmt=WPA-PSK > psk="very secret passphrase" > } > > wpa_supplicant with -ddd show more and more of the same with nothing > that helps me identify anything as a problem. just loops through the > same sequence of information which doesn't mean much to me. > on this one: wpa_supplicant -K -i ral0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf i just get: Trying to associate with MA:CA:DD:RE:SS (ssid="home" freq=2432 mhz) Associated with MA:CA:DD:RE:SS CTRL-EVENT-DESCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys and again and again and again... i'm typing this.... i get the idea. disconnected. why? >> >> -- >> Adam Vande More > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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