Adam Retter wrote: > 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 >
AR5212 is not well supported in 4.2, try a newer OpenBSD version.
