From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 21:40:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC1F537B401 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.csua.berkeley.edu (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.112.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44E1143FAF for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:40:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joup@bnet.org) Received: from soda.csua.berkeley.edu (IDENT:1iyKJqMMeYSaLnkx5+KIZgwf7mZWh+/d@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h7D4e9Oc013356 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:40:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joup@bnet.org) Received: from localhost (mjm@localhost)h7D4e8Qo013351 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:40:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: soda.csua.berkeley.edu: mjm owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:40:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Miller X-X-Sender: mjm@soda.csua.berkeley.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030812212858.D12364-100000@soda.csua.berkeley.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: wi0 does not associate on system startup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 04:40:10 -0000 Hi, I'm using a Netgear MA401 card on FreeBSD 4.8 (dell inspiron 2650 laptop), and for some reason I can't automatically connect to the wireless network when I start up. However, 'killall dhclient; dhclient wi0' works perfectly. Can anyone tell me what I can do to make this work the first time around? Below is a simple log of what I do everytime I boot up-- it looks like the card might be trying to get an INET6 address, but I don't know what to do about that either. Thanks in advance, Mark [mjm@zoe] ifconfig xl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=3 inet6 fe80::208:74ff:fee5:ff7c%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255 ether 00:08:74:e5:ff:7c media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier lp0: flags=8810 mtu 1500 ppp0: flags=8010 mtu 1500 sl0: flags=c010 mtu 552 faith0: flags=8002 mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 wi0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::209:5bff:fe4b:d64e%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7 inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255 ether 00:09:5b:4b:d6:4e media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps) status: associated ssid :"" stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node" channel 11 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 [mjm@zoe] ssh myserver ssh: connect to host myserver port 22: No route to host [mjm@zoe] sudo killall dhclient [mjm@zoe] sudo dhclient wi0 [mjm@zoe] ifconfig xl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=3 inet6 fe80::208:74ff:fee5:ff7c%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255 ether 00:08:74:e5:ff:7c media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier lp0: flags=8810 mtu 1500 ppp0: flags=8010 mtu 1500 sl0: flags=c010 mtu 552 faith0: flags=8002 mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 wi0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::209:5bff:fe4b:d64e%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7 inet 10.0.1.21 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.1.255 ether 00:09:5b:4b:d6:4e media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps) status: associated ssid :"" stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node" channel 11 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 [mjm@zoe] grep -v '^#' /etc/rc.conf hostname="zoe.verizon.net" ifconfig_wi0="DHCP" ifconfig_xl0="DHCP" network_interfaces="xl0 lo0 wi0" pccard_enable="YES" usbd_enable="YES" sendmail_enable="NONE" inetd_enable="YES" portmap_enable="YES" sshd_enable="YES" icmp_drop_redirect="YES" apm_enable="YES" apmd_enable="YES" linux_enable="YES" [mjm@zoe] uname -a FreeBSD zoe.verizon.net 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Wed Jun 18 22:43:27 PDT 2003 mjm@zoe.verizon.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZOE.5 i386