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Old 19th November 2017
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Hi i am trying to setup wifi with ipw0 network card, i have the correct firmware driver installed, a dmesg | grep ipw0 shows the adaptor i can scan for wifi networks and see the network i want to connect to, i can add to /etc/hostname.ipw0 the following config:

dhcp nwid mynetwork wpakey mykey

but when i try and ping my router i get no route to host.

dhclient ipw0 says:

ipw0: no link .... sleeping

when i look at my ifconfig i have:

ipw0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:04:23:74:f4:ee
index 2 pritority 4 llprio 3
groups:wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS11 mode 11b)
status: active

etc

any help would be great
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Old 19th November 2017
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Can you do this before dhcpclient ?

Code:
# ifconfig ipw0 nwid "mynetwork" wpakey "PASSWORD"
I never set up any /etc/hostname.* files since I would rather connect when I want to.
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See this section of the FAQ. The "dhcp" statement in your hostname.ipw0 file must be by itself, and follow after setting the nwid and wpakey.

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Wireless
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Strange...
My /etc/hostame.iwn0 file contained
Code:
dhcp nwid <mywifi> wpakey <mykey>
and it worked...

Anyway, I changed today the file as recommended...
Quote:
nwid <mywifi>
wpakey <mykey>
dhcp
Of course, it still works
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I assumed order-of-execution was the issue, due to the ifconfig(8) output shown above. There was no nwid or wpakey assigned.

(The status was "active" which doesn't appear to be possible in that situation.)
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