Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 13:56:56 -0600 From: Philip R.Moyer <prm@hyperon.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: (wireless query) wi0 interface associated, but no DHCP response? Message-ID: <02020213565600.20492@seawolf.complexsys.net>
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I have 4.5-RELEASE (from ISO images) running on a Sony PCG-F350
laptop. In it, I have a Linksys WPC11 PCMCIA wireless card.
My WAP is also a Linksys. The SSID is the default ("linksys"), channel 6,
etc - a basic vanilla setup. I run /etc/start_if.wi0 by hand, then, by hand,
run "dhclient wi0".
The sytem recognizes the card and loads the drivers perfectly (cool! :-) but
I can't get it to participate in my local network. The card is associated,
but I can't get DHCP response from my WAP.
Here's what "ifconfig wi0" has to say:
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::204:5aff: fecd:bd86%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
ether 00:04:5a:cd:bd:86
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
status: associated
ssid linksys
stationname "FeeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
channel 6 authmode NONE powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
The WAP is configured to serve DHCP.
Here's the output from "wicontrol -i wi0":
NIC serial number: [ 99A010000000 ]
Station name: [ FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node ]
SSID for IBSS creation: [ linksys ]
Current netname (SSID): [ linksys ]
Desired netname (SSID): [ linksys ]
Current BSSID: [ 00:04:5a:d0:b0:2b ]
Channel list: [ 2047 ]
IBSS channel: [ 6 ]
Current channel: [ 6 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise: [ 3 50 0 ]
Promiscuous mode: [ Off ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc): [ 1 ]
MAC address: [ 00:04:5a:cd:bd:86 ]
TX rate (selection): [ 3 ]
TX rate (actual speed): [ 11 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold: [ 2347 ]
Create IBSS: [ Off ]
Access point density: [ 1 ]
Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off): [ 0 ]
Max sleep time: [ 100 ]
WEP encryption: [ Off ]
TX encryption key: [ 1 ]
Encryption keys: [ ][ ][ ]
Here's my /etc/start_if.wi0:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -p 1
/usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -t 3
/usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -f 6
/usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -n linksys
Now, the MAC address doesn't show up in the WAP's dhcp client list,
as I would expect. This leads me to believe the request isn't even
getting to the WAP. BTW, the card worked flawlessly under RedHat 7.2.
I would certainly appreciate any advice anyone might provide me to fix
this problem!
Cheers,
Phil
P.S. Please include prm@hyperon.com in the reply or cc; Comcast just
switched us from the @home network to their own, and I'm not reliably
receiving my mail yet....
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