From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 5 05:33:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1D5016A400 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 05:33:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sziszi@bsd.hu) Received: from mail02d.mail.t-online.hu (mail02d.mail.t-online.hu [84.2.42.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D9F013C441 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 05:33:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sziszi@bsd.hu) Received: from baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx (catv540331AB.pool.t-online.hu [84.3.49.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail02d.mail.t-online.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A26E5B88C; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 06:33:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l155XbL1003694; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 06:33:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sziszi@bsd.hu) Received: (from sziszi@localhost) by baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l155XbDf003693; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 06:33:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sziszi@bsd.hu) X-Authentication-Warning: baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx: sziszi set sender to sziszi@bsd.hu using -f Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 06:33:37 +0100 From: Szilveszter Adam To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070205053337.GB2113@baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx> Mail-Followup-To: Szilveszter Adam , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, wouter1955@gmail.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: wouter1955@gmail.com Subject: Re: Wireless Network / WPA / ipw X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:33:40 -0000 Hello, On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:12:53PM +0100, Wouter vanderPloeg wrote: > regarding: > > http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html > > 3.1.3.1 WPA-PSK > > there seems to be 2 problems with the WPA-PSK with the intel prowireless > ipw2100 > > 1) NO AUTOMATIC CONNECTION > # /etc/rc.d/netif start > does NOT come up with a key (it says the AP does not come with an offer) > > only > # wpa_supplicant -i ipw0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf > produces the SECOND time an association It seems that this is a problem that is specific to the Intel wireless chips that need separate firmware files to be loaded at boot (in my case it is iwi) The thing is, it is simply too slow to come alive and therefore will look like requiring manual startup, but really if I wait (sometime several seconds after the whole boot has finished) then the link will come up eventually automatically. Of course if you have services that need a connection up earlier, then this is not good for you, but still, it works. (I use -CURRENT and the current iwi firmware kernel module port) > 2) NO CONNECTION WITH "NO BROADCAST" > It seems NOT possible to get a connection when the AP if that is set on > NO Broadcast. This used to be a problem with iwi too but eventually got fixed. Ipw may be affected as well. But neither of these problems is a problem with the documentation, rather both are problems with your hardware. So you should ask these questions on the -questions or on -stable mailing lists. -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Budapest Hungary