From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Nov 5 18: 0:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (ad202.166.98.224.magix.com.sg [202.166.98.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC20F37B479 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:00:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id eA61wwY03705; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 09:58:58 +0800 (SGT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 09:58:52 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Julian Elischer Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: 802.11b access in Singapore Changi airport (was: cool) Message-ID: <20001106095852.A3648@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <20000615084805.E809@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000615084805.E809@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 08:48:05AM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 15 June 2000 at 8:48:05 -0700, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 14 June 2000 at 1:00:27 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: >> >> So, if you are in the Singapore Changi international airport, >> the internet center in the transit area will loan you for FREE, >> a wavelan PC-CARD. >> >> So here I am waiting for my next flight and I'm on the net! >> (well they hold your passport in exchange but that's ok) >> >> I couldn;t get teh DHCP client to work, >> It kept saying: >> >> >> jules# /sbin/dhclient >> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists >> Listening on BPF/wi0/00:60:1d:1e:42:6c >> Sending on BPF/wi0/00:60:1d:1e:42:6c >> Can't find free bpf: No such file or directory >> exiting. >> >> And the log files showed.. >> >> Jun 14 00:54:37 jules /kernel: rtinit: wrong ifa (0xc0f85980) was (0xc0ee3000) >> Jun 14 00:54:37 jules dhclient: Can't find free bpf: No such file or directory >> Jun 14 00:54:37 jules dhclient: exiting. >> >> So I just did: >> # wicontrol -i wi0 -p 1 >> # tcpdump >> eventually a packet showed up, from the router at 192.100.100.1 >> so I just grabbed 192.100.100.2 (SHHHHHHHH!) >> >> now if I can get dhcp to work this would be great! > > Great stuff. Last but one time I was there (must have been a year > ago) I tried one of their Internet Cafe things, but I couldn't find an > active jack. > > So how do they expect people to get these things to work without DHCP? OK, I'm now in Changi myself, and I appear to be connected the way it was intended. You need to set the SSID to "ANY", no encryption, managed mode. The people I spoke to didn't know any of this, but we barely got by. Once you have that, you get: === grog@sydney (/dev/ttyp6) ~ 1 -> wicontrol -i wi0 NIC serial number: [ 00UT28336821 ] Station name: [ FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node ] SSID for IBSS creation: [ ANY ] Current netname (SSID): [ SIA Lounge Wireless ] Desired netname (SSID): [ ] Current BSSID: [ 00:60:1d:f2:2a:17 ] Channel list: [ 2047 ] IBSS channel: [ 3 ] Current channel: [ 10 ] Comms quality/signal/noise: [ 6 60 54 ] Promiscuous mode: [ Off ] Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc): [ 1 ] MAC address: [ 00:02:2d:04:09:3a ] TX rate (selection): [ 3 ] TX rate (actual speed): [ 2 ] 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: [ ][ ][ ][ ] === grog@sydney (/dev/ttyp6) ~ 2 -> ifconfig wi0 wi0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::202:2dff:fe04:93a%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9 inet 196.168.1.68 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.255 ether 00:02:2d:04:09:3a They appear to have blocked tracroute: === grog@sydney (/dev/ttyp6) ~ 3 -> traceroute freebie.lemis.com traceroute to freebie.lemis.com (192.109.197.137), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 196.168.1.1 (196.168.1.1) 2.781 ms 6.651 ms 8.375 ms 2 *^C but name services and ping work, and so does ssh. Check the headers on this message; I'd be interested to see what they say. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message