Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:10:27 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Repost: DHCP failing with WiFi after 6.0 upgrade Message-ID: <20051203051027.12FCD5D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:50:21 EST." <20051203045021.GA28760@panix.com>
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> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 23:50:21 -0500 > From: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> > > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:51:59AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 07:49:33 -0500 > > > From: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> > > [...] > > > > My biggest problem is that I can't seem to get DHCP to work with my > > > wireless card. I have an Orinoco Gold 802.11b card that's always worked > > > fine; I'm about to replace it with something else for 802.11g with a > > > new WAP. > > [...] > > > Under V6, you must explicitly specify the WEP transmit key index: > > ifconfig wi0 ssid jesterWAP wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:0x[DELETED] > > Many thanks! This is all it took. At least, with this I was able > to get a DHCP lease. > > I expect I'm about to expose my cluelessness, but even after getting > the lease--which, obviously, required going over the WAP to my router-- > I still can't connect anywhere. My wi0 ifconfig looks like: > > wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet6 fe80::202[DELETED] prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 > inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > ether 00:02[DELETED] > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps) > status: associated > ssid jesterWAP channel 6 bssid 00:06:[DELETED] > stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node" > authmode OPEN privacy MIXED deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit txpowmax 100 > bintval 100 > > after getting my DHCP lease. But I am unable to ping the router, or > the WAP, or run any traceroutes, or anything else over the network. > GNOME's "Connection Properties" applet shows packets received but > nothing sent, FWIW. I have no problem using the Ethernet interface. This is most likely the default route. DHCP will set it, but it will not replace a default that is already there if it was not set by dhclient. . Try either 'router delete default' or 'route flush' before running dhclient. If you already have dhclient running, I'd 'killall dhclient' and then restart it. > To address the other sub-thread: Are there no PC cards that > will work with 802.11g on a ThinkPad X23? I don't mind getting > an IBM-branded one, if that's what it takes, but this is a > four-year-old computer. There was some conflicting information > upthread about whether there are Atheros-based cards that will > work in some circumstances, or what. Last word from Lenovo is that no 802.11G cards are supported for the T30 and I suspect thats the T23, being even older is in the same state. I understand that it might be possible to hack BIOS to get around this, but I don't have any details. Of course, you can get a Cardbus b/g card (or a/b/g) and use that. I'd suggest Athros based, for the obvious reasons. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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