From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 24 02:34:19 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350391065670 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:34:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kalin@el.net) Received: from mail.el.net (mail.el.net [74.1.12.120]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE1E48FC08 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:34:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 65929 invoked by uid 1008); 24 Oct 2009 03:48:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kalins-macbook-pro.local) (kalin@el.net@74.1.12.115) by mail.el.net with ESMTPA; 24 Oct 2009 03:48:05 -0000 Message-ID: <4AE26714.8060001@el.net> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:31:48 -0400 From: kalin m User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Vande More References: <4AE250BF.8010902@el.net> <6201873e0910231846j4386baa9g3bd3eab21fed1727@mail.gmail.com> <4AE26337.8030001@el.net> In-Reply-To: <4AE26337.8030001@el.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: freebsd forgets root password X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:34:19 -0000 > not really... i checked. many times. even for num loc. which doesn't > matter... > >> amnesiac is the name freebsd uses when no hostname is set. > in this Amnesiac is the release name i think... > >> man msk > many times.... msk should at least show in the dmesg somewhere.... >> >> >> >> now... the wireless card i put in. ralink technology. in the >> office here there is a simple wifi router that is "protected" with >> WPA password. if i get rid of the password and just use ifconfig >> to get to the router everything works ok but putting the wpa on >> again and using the supplicant things suck. ifconfig says the card >> is associated. and it gets an ip but that's pretty much all that >> happens. pings to a neighboring machine produce huge dropouts. >> with 85% packet loss. another awesomeness... and those are pings >> to ips. dns is pretty much nowhere to be found. sysisntall has >> for ral0... >> >> >> This has always worked well for me: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html > that's where i got the wpa configuration from. also from man > wpa_supplicant and wpa_supplicant.conf. > > my conf looks like: > network={ > ssid="home" > scan_ssid=1 > key_mgmt=WPA-PSK > psk="very secret passphrase" > } > > wpa_supplicant with -ddd show more and more of the same with nothing > that helps me identify anything as a problem. just loops through the > same sequence of information which doesn't mean much to me. > on this one: wpa_supplicant -K -i ral0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf i just get: Trying to associate with MA:CA:DD:RE:SS (ssid="home" freq=2432 mhz) Associated with MA:CA:DD:RE:SS CTRL-EVENT-DESCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys and again and again and again... i'm typing this.... i get the idea. disconnected. why? >> >> -- >> Adam Vande More > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"