From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 9:49:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from attila.stevens-tech.edu (attila.stevens-tech.edu [155.246.14.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFDD837B405; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:49:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from kmccorm1 (host-W1-121.dhcp.stevens-tech.edu [155.246.156.128]) by attila.stevens-tech.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1/7) with SMTP id g33Hn3Ob187305; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:49:03 -0500 (EST) From: "Kevin McCormick" To: , Subject: Getting wi and wicontrol under control Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:47:29 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I'm currently running RELEASE-4.5 on a Compaq Armada E500 with a Compaq WL110 802.11b card. I'm using a slightly modified GENERIC kernel (for sound support and WINE). The notebook also has an integrated 10/100 NIC I can' seem to figure out how to use my wireless card. I seem to have wi working properly. Using wicontrol, I can set the WEP key, network name, etc., and using an X wi tool, I get the appropriate signal strength (i.e. I seem to be connected on the MAC level). Here are the problems: 1. I can't seem to figure out how to use dhclient to obtain an IP address - typing in dhclient returns "cannot bind address" Also, if I use ifconfig to manually assign an address, it doesn't seem to "stick", and still can't ping any addresses. 2. All of the wicontrol settings are lost when I restart the PC. I need to type them in every time to get signal. 3. pccardd doesn't seem to recognize the card until the "network setup: hostname" portion of the boot sequence. Any ideas on any of the problems? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message