Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 12:02:03 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 802.11b access in Singapore Changi airport (was: cool) Message-ID: <3A070E3B.4CAEFACD@elischer.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006140050210.58746-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20000615084805.E809@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <20001106095852.A3648@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Thursday, 15 June 2000 at 8:48:05 -0700, Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 14 June 2000 at 1:00:27 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > >> > >> So, if you are in the Singapore Changi international airport, > >> the internet center in the transit area will loan you for FREE, > >> a wavelan PC-CARD. > >> > >> So here I am waiting for my next flight and I'm on the net! > >> (well they hold your passport in exchange but that's ok) > >> > >> I couldn;t get teh DHCP client to work, > >> It kept saying: > >> > >> > >> jules# /sbin/dhclient > >> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists > >> Listening on BPF/wi0/00:60:1d:1e:42:6c > >> Sending on BPF/wi0/00:60:1d:1e:42:6c > >> Can't find free bpf: No such file or directory > >> exiting. > >> > >> And the log files showed.. > >> > >> Jun 14 00:54:37 jules /kernel: rtinit: wrong ifa (0xc0f85980) was (0xc0ee3000) > >> Jun 14 00:54:37 jules dhclient: Can't find free bpf: No such file or directory > >> Jun 14 00:54:37 jules dhclient: exiting. > >> > >> So I just did: > >> # wicontrol -i wi0 -p 1 > >> # tcpdump > >> eventually a packet showed up, from the router at 192.100.100.1 > >> so I just grabbed 192.100.100.2 (SHHHHHHHH!) > >> > >> now if I can get dhcp to work this would be great! > > > > Great stuff. Last but one time I was there (must have been a year > > ago) I tried one of their Internet Cafe things, but I couldn't find an > > active jack. > > > > So how do they expect people to get these things to work without DHCP? > > OK, I'm now in Changi myself, and I appear to be connected the way it > was intended. You need to set the SSID to "ANY", no encryption, > managed mode. The people I spoke to didn't know any of this, but we > barely got by. Once you have that, you get: > > === grog@sydney (/dev/ttyp6) ~ 1 -> wicontrol -i wi0 > NIC serial number: [ 00UT28336821 ] > Station name: [ FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node ] > SSID for IBSS creation: [ ANY ] > Current netname (SSID): [ SIA Lounge Wireless ] > Desired netname (SSID): [ ] > Current BSSID: [ 00:60:1d:f2:2a:17 ] > Channel list: [ 2047 ] > IBSS channel: [ 3 ] > Current channel: [ 10 ] > Comms quality/signal/noise: [ 6 60 54 ] > Promiscuous mode: [ Off ] > Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc): [ 1 ] > MAC address: [ 00:02:2d:04:09:3a ] > TX rate (selection): [ 3 ] > TX rate (actual speed): [ 2 ] > RTS/CTS handshake threshold: [ 2347 ] > Create IBSS: [ Off ] > Access point density: [ 1 ] > Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off): [ 0 ] > Max sleep time: [ 100 ] > WEP encryption: [ Off ] > TX encryption key: [ 1 ] > Encryption keys: [ ][ ][ ][ ] > === grog@sydney (/dev/ttyp6) ~ 2 -> ifconfig wi0 > wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet6 fe80::202:2dff:fe04:93a%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9 > inet 196.168.1.68 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.255 > ether 00:02:2d:04:09:3a > > They appear to have blocked tracroute: > > === grog@sydney (/dev/ttyp6) ~ 3 -> traceroute freebie.lemis.com > traceroute to freebie.lemis.com (192.109.197.137), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets > 1 196.168.1.1 (196.168.1.1) 2.781 ms 6.651 ms 8.375 ms > 2 *^C > > but name services and ping work, and so does ssh. last time I was there (2 weeeks ago) terminal 2 internet center was moving so I had to use terminal 1.. But DHCP seemed to work for me this time, (but not the first time...)... the script I used was: #!/bin/sh kldload if_wi sleep 15 wicontrol -i wi0 -p 1 sleep 1 /sbin/dhclient # if dhcp fails, use the following by hand.... #ifconfig wi0 up 192.100.100.2 #sleep 1 #route add default 192.100.100.1 I'll play more with it on jan 27 when I go through in the other direction again.... :-) > > Check the headers on this message; I'd be interested to see what they > say. ------------ Status: U Return-Path: <grog@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (ad202.166.98.224.magix.com.sg [202.166.98.224]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA12128 for <julian@elischer.org>; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:00:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id eA61wwY03705; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 09:58:58 +0800 (SGT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 09:58:52 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: 802.11b access in Singapore Changi airport (was: cool) Message-ID: <20001106095852.A3648@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006140050210.58746-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20000615084805.E809@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000615084805.E809@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 08:48:05AM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-UIDL: 60250 ------------------ > > Greg > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000 ---> X_.---._/ presently in: Budapest v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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