Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:59:50 +0100 From: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <Danovitsch@vitsch.net> To: RL <rlurman@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Wireless Card and SSID Message-ID: <200411301159.51073.Danovitsch@vitsch.net> In-Reply-To: <e6ceb9d404112914517b8bc73e@mail.gmail.com> References: <e6ceb9d404112914517b8bc73e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday 29 November 2004 23:51, 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, 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. You can't combine "use DHCP" and "use this SSID" in /etc/rc.conf . To do both, you need to create a startup script that sets the interface options (ssid / wep key / etc) and then just set /etc/rc.conf to use DHCP. In /etc/rc.conf put this : ifconfig_ath0="DHCP" Then place this in a file called /etc/start_if.ath0 : ifconfig ath0 ssid "some network" wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890123 --- end of /etc/start_if.ath0 --- The RC scripts will now first execute /etc/start_if.ath0 on boot, and then try to get an ip address on the interface with dhclient. grtz, Daan
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