Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:51:17 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: ipfreak@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd wireless question Message-ID: <873am1gyga.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <161366.84805.qm@web52110.mail.re2.yahoo.com> (gahn's message of "Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:49:01 -0700 (PDT)") References: <161366.84805.qm@web52110.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:49:01 -0700 (PDT), gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com> wrote:
> hello:
>
> i installed cisco aironet 802.11a/b/g wirless adapter on 6.3 and have
> some issues. basically it works like charm with wpa2/dhcp, but it
> doesn't work with wpa2/static ip address.
>
> here is my working configuration for rc.conf
>
> ifconfig_ath0="ssid home WPA DCHP"
>
> everything works: authentication, dhcp process, ip address binding to
> the interface.
>
> but any time i change to:
>
> ifconfig_ath0="ssid home WPA inet 192.168.1.12 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>
> everything else works except the binding of the static ip address to
> the interface.
I haven't tried putting *all* the options in ifconfig_ath0 ever, but my
old `wlan-home.sh' shell script for a WEP-only access point included
among others:
# network interface options
export wlans_ath0="wlan0"
export ifconfig_wlan0="inet 192.168.1.3/24"
export defaultrouter='192.168.1.1'
echo '## Stopping network interfaces.'
/etc/rc.d/netif stop fxp0 && ifconfig fxp0 delete
/etc/rc.d/netif stop ath0 && ifconfig ath0 delete
echo '## Bringing up wireless interface.'
/etc/rc.d/netif start ath0
# NOTE: Changing options with the wlan interface UP doesn't work for
# all options, so bring it temporarily down, set things up and go.
ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig wlan0 ssid '********' channel 5 wepmode on weptxkey 1 \
wepkey '0x**************************'
ifconfig wlan0 up
^^^^^ This last bit seems related to what you wrote. ^^^^^
I don't remember why I initially wrote it this way, but I think it was
because putting _everything_ in ${ifconfig_wlan0} with a statically
defined IP address didn't really work.
I don't use a static IP address anymore and I don't have the WEP-only AP
installed, having switched to WPA2/DHCP, but maybe that helps a bit with
what you want to do?
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