From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Feb 2 12: 5:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from penkovsky.complexsys.net (pcp01485748pcs.limstn01.de.comcast.net [68.82.52.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA9DC37B416 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 12:05:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from seawolf.complexsys.net (seawolf [192.168.10.110]) by penkovsky.complexsys.net (Postfix) with SMTP id AC4C923DF7 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 16:14:17 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Philip R.Moyer Reply-To: prm@hyperon.com Organization: Hyperon/Brinks Internet Security To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: (wireless query) wi0 interface associated, but no DHCP response? Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 13:56:56 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02020213565600.20492@seawolf.complexsys.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have 4.5-RELEASE (from ISO images) running on a Sony PCG-F350 laptop. In it, I have a Linksys WPC11 PCMCIA wireless card. My WAP is also a Linksys. The SSID is the default ("linksys"), channel 6, etc - a basic vanilla setup. I run /etc/start_if.wi0 by hand, then, by hand, run "dhclient wi0". The sytem recognizes the card and loads the drivers perfectly (cool! :-) but I can't get it to participate in my local network. The card is associated, but I can't get DHCP response from my WAP. Here's what "ifconfig wi0" has to say: wi0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::204:5aff: fecd:bd86%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7 inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255 ether 00:04:5a:cd:bd:86 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps) status: associated ssid linksys stationname "FeeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node" channel 6 authmode NONE powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 The WAP is configured to serve DHCP. Here's the output from "wicontrol -i wi0": NIC serial number: [ 99A010000000 ] Station name: [ FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node ] SSID for IBSS creation: [ linksys ] Current netname (SSID): [ linksys ] Desired netname (SSID): [ linksys ] Current BSSID: [ 00:04:5a:d0:b0:2b ] Channel list: [ 2047 ] IBSS channel: [ 6 ] Current channel: [ 6 ] Comms quality/signal/noise: [ 3 50 0 ] Promiscuous mode: [ Off ] Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc): [ 1 ] MAC address: [ 00:04:5a:cd:bd:86 ] TX rate (selection): [ 3 ] TX rate (actual speed): [ 11 ] RTS/CTS handshake threshold: [ 2347 ] Create IBSS: [ Off ] Access point density: [ 1 ] Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off): [ 0 ] Max sleep time: [ 100 ] WEP encryption: [ Off ] TX encryption key: [ 1 ] Encryption keys: [ ][ ][ ] Here's my /etc/start_if.wi0: #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -p 1 /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -t 3 /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -f 6 /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -n linksys Now, the MAC address doesn't show up in the WAP's dhcp client list, as I would expect. This leads me to believe the request isn't even getting to the WAP. BTW, the card worked flawlessly under RedHat 7.2. I would certainly appreciate any advice anyone might provide me to fix this problem! Cheers, Phil P.S. Please include prm@hyperon.com in the reply or cc; Comcast just switched us from the @home network to their own, and I'm not reliably receiving my mail yet.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message