Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:06:33 -0500 From: RL <rlurman@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless Card and SSID Message-ID: <e6ceb9d404112921066fed5b3d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <41ABFA0B.3020409@circlesquared.com> References: <e6ceb9d404112914517b8bc73e@mail.gmail.com> <41ABFA0B.3020409@circlesquared.com>
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On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 04:41:47 +0000, Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> 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. > > -- > > the circle squared > > network systems and software > > http://www.circlesquared.com > I fixed it. I saw another reply on here that said to make a /etc/start_if.ath0 startup script. That worked great. I am not sure why that wasn't documented anywhere.
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