Wireless networking with DHCP tickets
Hello-- I'm trying to use a hotel wireless network effectively. I can connect perfectly, and surf/do email, and so forth. However, I have to re-authenticate to the server every 2 minutes (the length of DHCP lease handed out). According to Orange WiFi, this is because the DHCP server sends some kind of a keep-alive ticket to the client every 2 minutes, and if the client does not respond, the lease is revoked. This functionality seems to rely on some non-standard features of the Microsoft Windows 2K/XP dhcp client, or wireless networking driver, since the same problem occurs on Macs and Linux. My question is -- has anyone heard of this kind of setup before? The drill is, one purchases a scratch card from the hotel test with a username/password pair, that is valid for a certain amount of time (e.g. 14 hours). Has anyone succeeded in getting authentication to stick with FreeBSD in such a configuration? Regards Tiarnan O Corrain ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless networking with DHCP tickets
Dirk-Willem van Gulik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Feb 26, 2004, at 10:47 AM, Tiarnan O'Corrain wrote: According to Orange WiFi, this is because the DHCP server sends some kind of a keep-alive ticket to the client every 2 minutes, and if the client does not respond, the lease is revoked. This is rather normal; and unless you have some firewall set up too strict works just fine with macosx/freebsds normal dhclient. See RFC3202 (the newer force-renew) and RENEWING/REBINDING in rfc 2131. Alas, it does not work, and Orange WiFi have also had calls from MacOS X people who can't get this to work. So I imagine the problem is slightly different. Authentication is done through a web-browser, whither one is directed after logging on for the first time. When the lease is revoked, all network services are blocked until authentication details are entered through the web-browser again. I am not running any firewall software on this laptop. Also, probably should have mentioned: ~(0)% uname -mnrs FreeBSD epiphyte 4.9-STABLE i386 Tiarnan O Corrain = Tiarnan O Corrain (on-site at Vodafone NL desk phone: +31 433 554 161 mobile: +31 627 404 866 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp inaccessible
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unfortunately, i don't have an *.raw files to try so i simply tried to cat somefile.wav /dev/dsp (and also to /dev/audio) both produce sound a screeching sound reminiscent of japanese noise bands :) That's good sign! It shows the device is configured. Do any of the command-line tools work... mpg123 c? Try setting the sound device explicitly (eg mpg123 -a /dev/dsp foo.mp3). Try it also as root. cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) pcm0: ESS Technology Maestro-2E at I/O port 0x1400 irq 5 (4p/0r/4v channels duplex) ~(0)% cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: pcm0: ESS Technology Allegro-1 at io 0x3000 irq 5 (4p/1r/0v channels duplex) There was a post yesterday explaining this. Apparently the driver doesn't support recording (yet). It seems to me that the driver is working, and that your problems are somewhere higher in the stack. Tiarnan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp inaccessible
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Tiarnan, Thanks for your input. I had already turned off the PNPBIOS option. I tried your suggestion of recompiling with: options PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES Judging by dmesg, it made no difference. It also did not allow any of the software to access /dev/dsp. Same error messages as described in first post. Try using MAKEDEV to remake the dsp devices, and check the permissions. Can you play any sound through the device node? E.g. cat blah.raw /dev/dsp ? I had a similar tussle with a Maestro 3 on a HP laptop, but it worked in the end. It can be done... I've attached my kernel configuration and loader.conf. You might try using using the snd_maestro3_load=YES instead of maestro in /boot/loader.conf. Maestro3.c is a driver for Allegro cards, perhaps a closer fit for your 2E. device sbc is unnecessary in your kernel config. Tiarnan EPIPHYTE Description: EPIPHYTE loader.conf Description: loader.conf ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp inaccessible
Hello, try recompiling your kernel with options PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES set. This sorted out my problems with that card. Hope this helps Tiarnan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp inaccessible
Hi, apologies for replying to my own message, but an additional point... turn off PNPBIOS, and make sure that your BIOS is set to non PNP operating system. T ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Automount from a Solaris NIS server possible?
Hello-- I'm running FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE and have managed (after some difficulty), to get it to bind to a Solaris NIS server we have here. All NIS users can log on now, but I can't figure out how to get home directories automounted when users do log in. I tried a couple of things on the web, an awk script to transform the Solaris auto.home, to amd syntax, and it seems to work fine, except that no home directories are mounted when NIS users log in. I'm hoping for a silver bullet solution! Here are some relevant bits: # cat /etc/amd.conf [ global ] auto_dir = /net log_file = /var/log/amd log_options = all search_path = /etc/amdmaps [/net] map_type = nis map_name = amd.nis From the amd.nis map /defaults opts:=rw,grpid,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,resvport;type:=nfs username host==nlattp6sfs1;type:=link;fs:=/volumes/home/toostenburg host!=nlattp6sfs1;os!=netbsd1;type:=nfs;rhost:=nlattp6sfs1;rfs:=/volumes/home/toostenburg host!=nlattp6sfs1;os==netbsd1;type:=nfs;opts:=rw,grpid,intr,resvport,proto=udp,vers=2;rhost:=nlattp6sfs1 It seems that amd is not picking up NIS logons. Any ideas? Cheers Tiarnan __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
