Re: Repost: DHCP failing with WiFi after 6.0 upgrade
Jesse Sheidlower <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:51:59AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 07:49:33 -0500 > > From: Jesse Sheidlower <[email protected]> [...] > > 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. [...] > Under V6, you must explicitly specify the WEP transmit key index: > ifconfig wi0 ssid jesterWAP wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:0x[DELETED] Many thanks! This is all it took. At least, with this I was able to get a DHCP lease. I expect I'm about to expose my cluelessness, but even after getting the lease--which, obviously, required going over the WAP to my router-- I still can't connect anywhere. My wi0 ifconfig looks like: wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::202[DELETED] prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:02[DELETED] media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps) status: associated ssid jesterWAP channel 6 bssid 00:06:[DELETED] stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node" authmode OPEN privacy MIXED deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit txpowmax 100 bintval 100 after getting my DHCP lease. But I am unable to ping the router, or the WAP, or run any traceroutes, or anything else over the network. GNOME's "Connection Properties" applet shows packets received but nothing sent, FWIW. I have no problem using the Ethernet interface. To address the other sub-thread: Are there no PC cards that will work with 802.11g on a ThinkPad X23? I don't mind getting an IBM-branded one, if that's what it takes, but this is a four-year-old computer. There was some conflicting information upthread about whether there are Atheros-based cards that will work in some circumstances, or what. Thanks again for this and the other useful discussion. Jesse Sheidlower _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"