Re: Wireless problems after upgrade to 4.10 (fwd)

"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:54:29 -0400
> From: Jesse Sheidlower <[email protected]>
> 
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 09:27:18AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > From: Jesse Sheidlower <[email protected]>
> > > 
> > > I'm running FreeBSD on an IBM ThinkPad X23. For wireless access, I've
> > > been using an Orinoco Gold 802.11b card that's been working fine for
> > > two years or so.
> > > 
> > > I just got around to upgrading from 4.9 to 4.10, and in the process
> > > something seems to have gotten screwed up with my wireless networking.
> > > I've made buildworld and made kernel, but not installworld or
> > > mergemaster yet.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > When I run dhclient, I get an IP address from my Linksys
> > > router, but am unable to reach anything outside. I can
> > > successfully ping the router, but trying to hit any outside
> > > address, by name or IP, just hangs indefinitely. My usual
> > > array of troubleshooting tips--killing the dhclient process,
> > > deleting the dhclient.leases file, flushing the routing
> > > table--has no effect.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > The fact that DHCP get an address and that you can ping the gateway
> > indicates that the card is working. Sounds like you might not have a
> > correct default route.
> > 
> > Do you see a reasonable response to 'netstat -rnf inet'?
> 
> Yes, I do--looks perfectly normal.
> 
> I have since brought the computer into my office, where I was
> instantly able to hop on to an open access point that seems to
> be in the neighborhood. This suggests that the problem must be
> with my home router/AP. I don't know why this would be, as
> it's been running fine for years, has the most basic
> configuration, and is working with several other computers. But
> I'm not sure what else to think about.

I have no idea what AP you are using, but, if it's got a firewall, that
my be unhappy with something. Does the AP log anything? 
-- 
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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