Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 21:49:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: wifi connection to resortwifi Message-ID: <20070609214258.N88191@math.missouri.edu>
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I'm trying to connect to "Resort Wifi" whilst staying in my hotel. I can get windows XP to connect fine, but FreeBSD seems to have a hard time with dhclient. The problem seems to be that the resort wants to connect as if I had issued the following instructions: ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.4.190 netmask 255.255.255.255 up route add default 192.168.4.1 If I do this by hand, I get an error message after the "route" command. I can get around it by typing: ifconfig ndis0 netmask 255.255.255.0 route add default 192.168.4.1 where the netmask was chosen somewhat arbitrarily, and then it all works fine. I get the feeling that "resortwifi" are doing something bad, perhaps taking an advantage of a bug in Windows XP that should reject this bogus DHCP assignment. Anyway, can any of you suggest a more permanent workaround? I bet I'll get messed up when my dhcp assignment gets renewed.
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