Hello everyone. I am new to OpenBSD (BSD in general), so please be gentle.
I have taken special care to pick a wireless card that is on the HCL for openbsd, and I have read the wi man page, the hostname.if manpage and the ifconfig manpage. I have lurked all over google groups, and on this list, and I cannot find what I am doing wrong. I have been at this for over 4 hours straight and I am exhausted.
Here is what I have: OpenBSD 3.6 IBM 390e laptopD-Link DWL7100-AP (802.11a/g wireless access point, claims backward compat. with 802.11b)
US Robotics USR2410 (802.11b wireless card) A RedHat Linux DHCP server running ISC's dhcpdI have a gentoo linux laptop working with this wireless setup. I just can't get my OBSD laptop working.
The machine seems to detect the card. Dmesg:wi0 at pcmcia1 function 0 "U.S. Robotics, IEEE 802.11b PC-CARD, Version 01.02" port 0xa000/64 wi0: PRISM2 HWB3163 rev.A, Firmware 0.3.0 (primary), 0.7.6 (station), address 00:90:d1:08:44:7d
I have tried to construct my hostname.wi0 as suggested in the manpage: !/sbin/wicontrol wi0 -f 11 -x1 -E3inet 10.100.100.29 255.255.255.0 10.100.100.255 nwid myssid nwkey 0xmylonghexkey mediaopt hostap
dhcpI have tried tweaking the above values in a myriad of permutations. My DWL7100 is set to use channel 6 for 802.11g, so I have tried that. I have tried x at both 0 and 1 values. I have found that no matter what value I give E, I get this error:
wicontrol: SIOCSWAVELAN: Invalid argument (or something very similar).I have tried setting the card up manually with the ifconfig command, like so:
ifconfig wi0 10.200.200.29 255.255.255.0 10.200.200.255 nwid myssid nwkey \
0xmylonghexkey mediaopt hostap
("\" added for readability).
When I do this, I can ping 10.200.200.29 (itself), but not any other
machine on the network.
I have checked they key a million times. It is as it should be. I just cannot figure out what this thing wants from me...
Could someone please give me a hand? Thank you! Chris
