On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 03:10:38PM -0800, Jeff Richards wrote:
> I have been trying to configure a HP Pavilion dv5000(5210us) laptop to connect
> to a WEP network.? I have tried OBSD 5.2 and CURRENT without success using WEP
> but can connect with WPA --personal hotspot.
> 
> 
> The network interfaces I have
> tried are 
> 
> 
> Integrated wireless (bwi0 at pci3 dev 2 function 0 "Broadcom
> BCM4318" rev 0x02: apic 1 int 21) 
> 
> 
> USB adapter (rum0 at uhub0 port 1 "Ralink
> Technology RT2573" EV 2.00/0.01 addr 2 MAC/BBP RT2573 (rev 0x2573a), RF
> RT2528)
> 
> Both adapters fail to obtain a DHCP configuration with "No acceptable
> DHCPOFFERS received" when using WEP but have no issue when configured for WPA.
> I have used "ifconfig <interface> scan" to extract information? to specify the
> channel and BSSID for my hostname.if WEP configuration.
> 
> Any ideas will be
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Idea 1: Supply the information requested for problem reports in

        http://openbsd.org/report.html

including your logs, and a tcpdump of any received DHCPOFFER packets.

Idea 2: manually configure the interface and see if ANY network
        traffic (e.g. ping) makes it in or out.

.... Ken

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