Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 21:22:52 -0500 From: "The Jetman" <jetman516@hotmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Mobile" <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: How Can I Get My WaveLAN/Orinoco Card Operational ? Message-ID: <OE47cIkYGEEYaYsG3c300018543@hotmail.com>
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Have a simple question about connecting to a wireless ISP via an
Orinoco Silver wireless card. This works fine under Windows, but I want
to bring up a FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE NAT/Firewall box, for the obvious
reasons. Having done everything from configuring the kernel, to
editing the .conf files, when I execute:
wicontrol -i wi0 -C
I can see a number of hosts w/ their IPs and MAC addresses. along w/
signal strength info. That says to me the card is nearly operational.
I say nearly, because when I ping any IP on the external net, the packets
are sent to the bit bucket. If I ping the FBSD box from a desktop box (via
a dialup connection), no joy. Now if I reboot under Windows, the box's
IP is visible.
Here's the o-put from wicontrol:
NIC serial number: [ 00UT31335083 ]
Station name: [ TEST Wireless Server ]
SSID for IBSS creation: [ FreeBSD IBSS ]
Current netname (SSID): [ MYISP ]
Desired netname (SSID): [ MYISP ]
Current BSSID: [ 00:02:2d:30:97:a2 ]
Channel list: [ 2047 ]
IBSS channel: [ 1 ]
Current channel: [ 1 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise: [ 24 77 53 ]
Promiscuous mode: [ Off ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc): [ 1 ]
MAC address: [ 00:02:2d:04:5d:62 ]
TX rate (selection): [ 11 ]
TX rate (actual speed): [ 2 ]
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: [ On ]
TX encryption key: [ 1 ]
Encryption keys: [ 12345 ][ ][ ][ ]
It would seem to me that there is something specific to the card
that I'm simply unaware of, so I'm hoping someone who knows a lot more
can spot my oversight. BTW, below is my routing info, in case that's
helpful:
Routing tables
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
default 1.2.3.4 UGSc 1 0 wi0
1.2.3/24 link#7 UC 2 0 wi0
1.2.3.1 0:1:42:ca:66:3a UHLW 1 0 wi0 1198
1.2.3.4 1.2.3.1 UGHS 1 0 wi0
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 0 lo0
192.168.0 link#1 UC 1 0 sis0
192.168.0.108 0:3:b3:0:71:ba UHLW 0 70 sis0 644
where 1.2.3.4 is the address of the wireless and 1.2.3.1 is the ISP's
gateway address. I "think" I have a working route to the outside world
(ie. I have defaultrouter="1.2.3.1" stmt in rc.conf.)
Anyway, that's all I can think of for the moment. TIA....Jet
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