Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:43:18 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot get IP working between associated ath0 & AP, what to do? Message-ID: <20051108194318.1ce71700@vixen42.vulpes> In-Reply-To: <20051031182539.GA52720@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20051031182539.GA52720@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:25:39 +0100 Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > I have an SMC PCMCIA wireless adapter, model SMCWCB-G, based on an > Atheros 5212 chipset, in a laptop running a fresh install of FreeBSD > 6.0-RC1. > > The card associates fine, but then fails to send any IP packets in > the air, or at least that's what I presume is going on. I cannot > ping the AP, I cannot get a lease using DHCP, basically the only > thing I can do is associate. I think it does associate because when > I set an invalid wep key, the status changes back to 'no carrier'. > Setting a static IP address does not help. > > Any hints on where I might go from here to debug this? I know the > setup should work because in a previous life [1] it Worked With > Windows[TM] (and on the same AP). If it is using wep, set the weptxkey. I had the same problem when moving from a laptop with releng_5 to a laptop with releng_6.
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