Re: Repost: DHCP failing with WiFi after 6.0 upgrade

"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 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
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