Re: Repost: DHCP failing with WiFi after 6.0 upgrade
"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
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> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 07:49:33 -0500 > From: Jesse Sheidlower <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > > I sent this yesterday to -questions, but in retrospect perhaps this > really is the right place; sorry for the duplication. > > I recently took my IBM ThinkPad X23, which had been running 4.11, and > did a fresh install (backup files, wipe disk, install from scratch) > to 6.0. Most things have gone smoothly, though there are still a few > things to iron out. > > My biggest problem is that I can't seem to get DHCP to work with my > wireless card. I have an Orinoco Gold 802.11b card that's always worked > fine; I'm about to replace it with something else for 802.11g with a > new WAP. > > There seem to be minor differences in how the card goes in; under 4.11 > I would get various beeps when I plugged it in and after it associated, > but now it's silent. And I had to remember to load WEP in my kernel. > But I can seem to get things started by issuing the command > > ifconfig wi0 ssid jesterWAP wepmode on wepkey 0x[DELETED] > > which does seem to successfully reach my WAP: > > # ifconfig wi0 > wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet6 fe80::202:[DELETED] prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 > ether 00:02:[DELETED] > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps) > status: associated > ssid jesterWAP channel 6 bssid 00:[DELETED] > stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node" > authmode OPEN privacy MIXED deftxkey UNDEF wepkey 1:104-bit txpowmax 100 bintval 100 -----------------------------------------------^^^^^ Under V6, you must explicitly specify the WEP transmit key index: ifconfig wi0 ssid jesterWAP wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:0x[DELETED] -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"