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From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org>
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Subject: Re: Wireless Card and SSID
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Peter Risdon wrote:
> RL wrote:
> 
>> Sending again... I really need to solve this.
>> I have a Netgear WAG511 PC Card and am using the ath driver. In my
>> /etc/rc.conf I have ath0 to use DHCP and also I have:
>> ifconfig_ath0="ssid myssid".  Now, I can set this all up manually
>> using ifconfig and it works till I reboot. When I set it in my rc.conf
>> and I boot it up, 
> 
> 
> You really need to copy here exactly what you put in rc.conf and exactly 
> what you type on the command line to set it up manually. From what 
> you've said it's possible to assume you have two ifconfig_ath0= lines in 
> rc.conf, and I don't think that would work. The latter would replace, 
> not augment, the former.
> 
> I get "ath0: association failed (reason 12) for
> 
>> 00:0f:66:02..." flash on my screen one right after another. And when I
>> do ifconfig, it shows no IP address NOR the ssid I set.  For some
>> reason it doesn't see the SSID or DHCP I set up in rc.conf.
> 
> 
> That doesn't follow.
> 
> Peter.
> 
I'm in late on this....

have you tried:
   an /etc/rc.conf with
     ifconfig_ath0="DHCP"

   and a /etc/dhclient.conf with something similar to
     interface "ath0" {
        send dhcp-client-identifier "YourHostName";
        media "ssid YourSSID mode 11b channel 11 wepmode on wepkey 
0xKeyHERE";
        request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers, 
domain-name-servers, domain-name, time-servers;
     }

(mind the word wrap)

HTH
-- 
Regards,
Eric