From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 27 09:22:30 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 604B716A421 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:22:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.157]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E226313C448 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:22:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so2039942fgg.35 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:22:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=7iGRrqTRghK7yFbQsYBrvZuCf0lAB400PLmaXRykq9U=; b=m//pS0gl8WTkMgQzGync4hpdfBhbCXyQNUcjvdIRhRggOvXCCI4yt7OJZlcc7kUZ4R/k6VahAVpelbnw/UahQ/fuWcMQMr2GBE17qDOKN8oIMErMIDhfXERbUMVB8pVN2mO9ahktawGpGZai2AlK/o+2VB/JxC7uDmmLs8f6o1Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Jy693S54mjWonZS4lZAgJH6dSOoRFhWt0rb3VLRzldHV7Tg0nB4u4eC+xBLgudw658eBr67wcAgR9+xBQEzdW2W18Fx/C7hTvYBXorEs6WA0jzPNrbZd3/pD3WfgXuT7iuITtdkzcSEKKQkvUS3cIV893AmdVapmVcmdioQ58hI= Received: by 10.86.54.3 with SMTP id c3mr7611408fga.76.1198747348505; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:22:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.86.68.13 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:22:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <790a9fff0712270122s58d3c497u1690b7ad80fd32da@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:22:28 -0600 From: "Scot Hetzel" To: "Nathan Butcher" In-Reply-To: <47730975.2060209@fusiongol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071226120007.EE47716A494@hub.freebsd.org> <47730975.2060209@fusiongol.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DHCPclient issues with wireless X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:22:30 -0000 On 12/26/07, Nathan Butcher wrote: > Updated to 7.0-PRERELEASE yesterday. > > I have a Ralink chipset USB wireless adaptor. It gets the ural driver as > expected. Typically I connect it with dhcpclient to a completely open > wireless access point. dhcpclient is good enough to find the first ssid > it gets and sets me up with a DHCP lease to use dhcp with it. > All I needed to do was issue "dhcpclient ural0" > > This behaviour seems to have changed in PRERELEASE. dhcplcient simply > tells me "ural0: no link...." > > Here's the interesting thing though. I can manually set the ipaddress, > netmask, ssid, and default route of the system and "cheat" my way into > network access without requiring a dhcp lease. > > I assume that there's been some change in dhcpclient which has upset > it's normal behaviour, whereas the ural driver still works (more or less > - it often "times out" randomly) > What does 'ifconfig ural0' show before you issue 'dhcpclient ural0'? Does it show that ural0 is associated with your access point? If it doesn't show that you are associated, does a 'ifconfig ural0 ssid ' before the dhcpclient allow you to get an IP address? Scot