Hi there I am hoping someone can help me with a weird wireless problem... I have a Soekris net4801 with an Atheros AR5212 mini-PCI card and OpenBSD 4.2 installed - I am trying to use the Soekris as an Access Point amongst other things.
I setup the Atheros card with the hostname.ath0 file, containing - up inet 192.168.0.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 media autoselect mediaopt hostap mode 11a nwid MY_NET nwkey mykey12345678 Now from my laptop (192.168.0.251) I can see the MY_NET Wireless network and connect to it fine (excellent signal strength), however at a first glance I dont seem to be to send any data forwards or backwards?!? I cant ping either machine from the other. However "route show" on the Soekris does show an entry for the laptops 192.168.0.251 address so there must of been an interchange of arp traffic, and the arp table (arp -a) shows the laptops IP address and MAC address - ? (192.168.0.251) at 00:1b:77:a8:66:f4 on ath0 On the laptop (Windows XP), the arp table does have the Soekris IP in it but its marked as invalid - 192.168.0.254 00-00-00-000000 invalid Now I dont understand how I can connect to the wireless network and have the arp tables on each machine know about the others IP addresses but yet am unable to send any tcp/ip traffic forwards and backwards. I have disabled pf with "pfctl -d" to test this as well, with no change in result. Is there some configuration I have missed to enable tcp/ip on the ath0 interface? or any suggestions about what the problem may be? Thanks -- Adam Retter
