On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 2:17 PM Patcher <patchwriter@fedora.email> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am having problem connecting to internet in my openbsd desktop. During
> installation I was unable to connect to my mobile hotspot (don't have
> wifi). I didn't pay much attention to it and continued to installation.
> After installation I went to install firmware for my wifi card (cheap wifi
> dongle using mtw firmware) using android usb tethring. After doing a
> fw_update, I tried to connect to mobile hotspot using ifconfig utility as
> stated in faq I did ifconfig mtw0 nwid xyz wpakey xyz and ran the command.
> After that I did ifconfig mtw0 inet autoconf. I tried to ping openbsd.org
> but it din't worked. Here are the outputs of dmesg, netstat -rn and
> ifconfig. Any help will be appreciated.
>
> [...]
>
> mtw0: flags=808843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,AUTOCONF4> mtu
> 1500
>         lladdr 00:e0:2d:4c:73:7f
>         index 3 priority 4 llprio 3
>         groups: wlan
>         media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS1 mode 11g)
>         status: active
>         ieee80211: join net chan 1 bssid ea:ed:fb:e9:27:74 -37dBm wpakey
> wpaprotos wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers ccmp wpagroupcipher ccmp
>
I don't see an "inet" line showing that you have an IP address assigned on
this interface.
Do you have a DHCP server you are expecting to give you an address?  If so
it hasn't.

Also make sure dhcpleased(8) is running.  It should be already, but it
doesn't hurt to check.

-ken

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