At 07:01 AM 1/30/2009 -0700, Michael wrote: >Hi all. I bought a router yesterday and I'm trying to get OpenBSD >working with it. It's a Broadcom airforce 802.11g and works with >Windows and linux. I downloaded the bwi driver for OpenBSD and >followed the man page for bwi. >I created /etc/hostname.bwi0 and tried each example shown in the man >page. >I started with dhcp NONE NONE NONE in my /etc/hostname.bwi0 and upon >booting, the wireless led lit up a few times, but the screen showed >"bwi0 .......no link". >I then tried "dhcp nwid mynetworkid", tried rebooting and got the same >response. >I then tried "dhcp nwid mynetworkid nwkey mynetworkkey" and then tried >"route flush" and "sh /etc/netstart bwi0". Same thing :( >This is my first try at wireless with OpenBSD, so what am I doing >wrong? Something simple, I'm sure, but I'm missing it whatever it is.
It sounds like you're close; here's what works for me in /etc/hostname.ral0: dhcp NONE NONE NONE nwid mynetworkid nwkey 0xmynetworkkey Don't forget the '0x' preceding your networkkey. -- All the best (Adéu-siau), Lou Hevly [email protected] http://visca.com _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
