wifi connection to resortwifi
Stephen Montgomery-Smith <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
I'm trying to connect to "Resort Wifi" whilst staying in my hotel. I can get windows XP to connect fine, but FreeBSD seems to have a hard time with dhclient. The problem seems to be that the resort wants to connect as if I had issued the following instructions: ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.4.190 netmask 255.255.255.255 up route add default 192.168.4.1 If I do this by hand, I get an error message after the "route" command. I can get around it by typing: ifconfig ndis0 netmask 255.255.255.0 route add default 192.168.4.1 where the netmask was chosen somewhat arbitrarily, and then it all works fine. I get the feeling that "resortwifi" are doing something bad, perhaps taking an advantage of a bug in Windows XP that should reject this bogus DHCP assignment. Anyway, can any of you suggest a more permanent workaround? I bet I'll get messed up when my dhcp assignment gets renewed. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"