From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 16 18:53:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB75D16A400 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 18:53:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pbowen@fastmail.fm) Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F4FB43D45 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 18:53:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pbowen@fastmail.fm) Received: from frontend2.internal (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74CFCD4C253 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 14:53:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.152]) by frontend2.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 16 Apr 2006 14:53:26 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: EdLhUme7lcB7rEcfBvDI5hEDa9+p1JvubXyZbceXICHF 1145213603 Received: from [192.168.1.200] (unknown [205.246.14.228]) by frontend3.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FC277F85 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 14:53:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <444292B9.9010804@fastmail.fm> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:53:45 -0500 From: Patrick Bowen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <33243.69.86.138.196.1145211237.squirrel@webmail.pratt.edu> In-Reply-To: <33243.69.86.138.196.1145211237.squirrel@webmail.pratt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: wireless setup help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 18:53:58 -0000 nathan@pratt.edu wrote: >Hi, > >I'm having difficulties connecting to my roommate's apple airport. > >Following the guide I tried using a fixed IP: >ifconfig ath0 10.0.1.5 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid "True That" >but got "status: no carrier" and obviously couldn't ping anything. > >I believe WEP is turned off at the moment as my roommate joins without any >password. > >next I tried the dhcp method from someone in the mailing list. I added >these lines to rc.conf then rebooted: >ifconfig_ath0="DHCP" >ifconfig ath0 ssid "True That" > >at reboot dhcp wasn't able to pick up any leases and I saw "status: no >carrier" on ifconfig ath0. > >FreeBSD wireless setup is new to me, so I'm probably missing something >obvious. The card is a DLink Airplus G and I have the if_ath.ko loading >at boot without any problems. Any hints are most appreciated. Thanks, >Nathan > >_______________________________________________ >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" > > > Nathan; Unless the Apple device is running a DHCP server (you didn't mention if you knew that to be true), setting "ifconfig_ath="DHCP"" in rc.conf will have no effect. Have you tried setting the IP and netmask and ssid to what your roommate's machine is using (just to see if it works)? Also, the line in your rc.conf, "ifconfig ath0 ssid "True That"" is, I suspect, wrong. I'll bet it needs to be something like "ifconfig_ath0_ssid="True That". Patrick