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Old 13th July 2011
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On upgrading:

1) OpenBSD 4.5 has not been supported for more than a year.
2) New admins are often nervous about upgrades, but tools like sysmerge(8) make it very easy to do. Those of us who use -current are upgrading constantly.

On your problem with your bwi(4) NIC:

1) Consider that your BSSID (nwid) and your dhclient.conf host-name are the same. This may confuse your router's DHCP service. You might try a default dhclient.conf before making changes like that.

2) Test with an open, unprotected network, to ensure that something in your nwkey is not the problem. Commonly hexidecimal (0-9 and A-F) representations are accidently keyed as ASCII characters, or vice versa. If you can connect to your wireless router with WEP disabled, but cannot with WEP enabled, you will know this is your problem.

Bridge files are used to describe bridged networks, which I don't think you'll need, from what you've provided. Without a clearer picture of your topology, I can only guess that you have a single NIC intended for use, bwi0, and your wired NIC, rl0, has nothing plugged into it.
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