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Newbie - need help configuring wireless connection...
Hi,
I am really embarrassed to have to ask help on this one but I just can't seem to figure it out. I am simply trying to connect my OpenBSD 5.1 box to a WAP. I have tried 3 different network devices: 1. PCMCIA Linksys WPC4G ver 3.1 2. Alfa AWUS036NH 3. Alfa AWUS036H (urtw0) OpenBSD 5.1 seems to recognize all three of these cards right out of the box. I successfully use the following command with all three: ---------------------------- $ sudo ifconfig nwdevice scan ----------------------------- After reading the ifconfig man page, I have tried using the following command to access my WAP: $ sudo ifconfig urtw0 nwid Jupiter chan 7 bssid 00:0f:66:00:7c:29 wpakey XXX The result: ------------------------ ifconfig urtw0 urtw0: flags=8a43<UP,BROADCAST, RUNNING, ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:c0:ca:50:79:21 priority: 4 groups: wlan media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS1 mode 11g) status: active ieee80211: nwid Jupiter chan 7 bssid 00.0f:66:00:7c:29 100dB wpakey (not displayed) wpaprotos wpa1.wpa2. wpaakms psk wpaciphers tkep, ccmp wpagroupcipher tkip 100dBm inet6 fe80::2c0:caff:fe50:7921%urtw0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 ------------------------ The AWUS036H(urtw0) seems to be the most promising of the the three. Unfortunately, I am not supplied with an IP and I do not seem to have an actual connection. Pinging google yields nothing. Any assistance would be much appreciated. Thank you, Bob |
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Hi bobmarss, and welcome to daemonforums.org!
You are half-way there. You've established a link-level connection to the WAP, but to get an IP address you'll probably want to use dhclient(9). This uses the DHCP protocol to attempt to get an IP address from the AP, etc. Usually the AP is set up to support this. |
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IDOP and Jiggimi, that did the trick! I can't thank you both enough!!
Sincerely, Bob |
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Congratulations bobmarss !!!
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