Hi,
on my x86 laptop running OpenBSD 5.2 (but I had the same problem with
5.0 and 4.9) I am unable to use my wireless cards.
For example, if I use a D-Link cardbus card which identifies itself as:
ral0 at cardbus0 dev 0 function 0 "Ralink RT2561" rev 0x00: irq 11,
address 00:22:b0:64:44:06
ral0: MAC/BBP RT2561C, RF RT2527
If I do for "ifconfig ral0 scan", it will find my network, thus I
assume the hardware is working at least for a certain degree. (The card
is a known good card which works with FreeBSD, Linux and Windows on
other computers).
I thus configure ifconfig ral0 nwkey xxxx nwid yyyy, where is yyy is the
network id I know and which was also found by the scan.
I see the lights go up on the card.
I then run "dhclient ral0" but I get no link:
# dhclient ral0
ral0: no link ............. sleeping
The strange part is that I don't see the lights blinking. usually during
this operation on other operating system I see network traffic.
I will also see no network.
ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:22:b0:64:44:06
priority: 4
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS1 mode 11g)
status: no network
ieee80211: nwid westernesse 100dBm
What is going wrong here?
Thanks,
Riccardo
