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Another OpenBSD Wifi Thread
I recently pulled out my old OpenBSD laptop and did a wipe and fresh install of 6.2 on it - but stupidly, I didn't save the wireless configuration that took me so much effort to get working before. So I'm back to having wireless not working no matter what I do, and while I can find thread with similar symptoms, none of them seem to have a clear solution.
So here's how things stand: the post-install process installed the firmware for the wifi, which is a built-in Atheros device that shows up as ath0. /etc/hostname.ath0 contains the following: Code:
-chan -bssid -wpakey nwid "arbol" media mode 11g wpakey "(censored)" dhcp Code:
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:11:85:1a:9f:27 index 1 priority 4 llprio 3 groups: wlan media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS1) status: no network ieee80211: nwid arbol chan 7 bssid 90:c7:92:57:bb:c0 wpakey (censored) wpaprotos wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers ccmp wpagroupcipher ccmp Can someone help me figure out what's going on here? By everything I read in the man pages, it sounds like I should have everything correctly configured, but it just refuses to work...
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nwid Puffy wpakey istheOpenBSDmascot dhcp And this minimal configuration happily just works with one of those off-the-shelf travel wifi routers (this one, to be precise, though not an ad/endorsement of it). I would imagine if you need more than the minimal /etc/hostname.XXX, then you're either connecting to something that requires security/wpa_supplicant or you've otherwise heavily configured your wifi router. |
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I actually tried 6.3 first, but A. I couldn't get some packages to install because they wanted pango which wanted something that wanted a specific version of freetype that wasn't available, and B. it had the same problem anyway.
Anyway: yeah, I actually did have a simpler hostname.ath0 like yours and that had the same problem. The more elaborate current one was generated by that old wiconfig shell script that got my wireless issues resolved last time I was using this laptop (under 5.6, I think?) but this time it's not cutting it. I tried wpa_supplicant and wifind as well, but neither resolve the issue. I don't think the router should be configured in any particularly arcane manner, though I suppose I've been meaning to hook up a proper router anyway and get off the garbage Comcast modem wifi, so it probably wouldn't hurt to just give it a shot and see if that changes anything...
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Sometime between 5.3 and 6.3, ccmp became the default cipher. If your router is confitgured for tkip, you would also see a previously working system fail to connect.
If this is the case, ccmp is deemed more secure so the best fix would be to set the router cipher to ccmp. Otherwise you can use a wpacipher entry in your /etc/ifconfig.ath0 as described in ifconfig(8). |
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This should be reported.
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Hmm. Don't know if it's been properly filed as a report or not, but I do know someone else already raised the issue about a month ago. Those are the same symptoms I got (though for a different package with the same ultimately missing dependencies.)
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Tried setting ifconfig to use tkip and no change. Here's the output from ifconfig: Code:
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:11:85:1a:9f:27 index 1 priority 4 llprio 3 groups: wlan media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS1) status: no network ieee80211: nwid arbol wpakey (swordfish!) wpaprotos wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers tkip wpagroupcipher ccmp
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