wifi dhcp
Ok, we're losin our minds here. Me and a friend just bought up no less than 4 boxes (server, 2 laptops, and a net-device) in about 2 weeks on stable 6.1. My first foray into bsd since '95, and I'm way-pleased. One little problem: every one of them loses it's connection (aka ip) when the wifi goes out and comes back, forcing us to 'dhclient xx0' incessantly. Note we're talking a belkin ath, an ativa ath, a wavelan wi and a linksys wi, not all the same card or even driver. Someone on current said, 'it's probably a problem with the driver's link-state handling' - whatever. Oh, yeah, we've got one set on a dlink ap, and the other on a linksys. Both are running wep for legacy reasons, which I have a sinking feeling may be a contributing factor. Ideas? thanks, Steve -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wifi dhcp
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 13:21, Steve Franks wrote: Ok, we're losin our minds here. Me and a friend just bought up no less than 4 boxes (server, 2 laptops, and a net-device) in about 2 weeks on stable 6.1. My first foray into bsd since '95, and I'm way-pleased. One little problem: every one of them loses it's connection (aka ip) when the wifi goes out and comes back, forcing us to 'dhclient xx0' incessantly. Note we're talking a belkin ath, an ativa ath, a wavelan wi and a linksys wi, not all the same card or even driver. Someone on current said, 'it's probably a problem with the driver's link-state handling' - whatever. Oh, yeah, we've got one set on a dlink ap, and the other on a linksys. Both are running wep for legacy reasons, which I have a sinking feeling may be a contributing factor. I see the same behavior (using an older wi(4) card). I haven't done much experimenting with it though since my house isn't that big and I don't lose my link that often. A couple things I would suggest trying, though: Add a killall dhclient somewhere in your boot process. Not ideal for some circumstances, but if you only plan to be on one logical wireless network for a given session then it shouldn't hurt anything. Try using the net/isc-dhcp3-client port instead of the base system's dhclient. E.g.: cd /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-client make install clean echo 'dhclient_program=/usr/local/sbin/dhclient' /etc/rc.conf If you have/use a dhclient.conf file you'll also need to either move it to /usr/local/etc or add 'dhclient_flags=-c /etc/dhclient.conf' to /etc/rc.conf. Good luck! JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WIFI DHCP
I would like to use a wireless card as my primary internet connection. I have read the manual and see nothing mentioned about setting up the card to use DHCP. I do not have a static ip on the access point I'm connecting to. How do I set the card to use DHCP? Please cc me as I'm not on the list. Thanks, Beech __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WIFI DHCP
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:52:01PM -0700, Beecher Rintoul wrote: I would like to use a wireless card as my primary internet connection. I have read the manual and see nothing mentioned about setting up the card to use DHCP. Then you've looked in the wrong place. :-) I do not have a static ip on the access point I'm connecting to. How do I set the card to use DHCP? Look at section 23.5 (Automatic Network Configuration). In short: - make sure that device bpf is in the kernel (it is in GENERIC) - edit /etc/rc.conf to put the interface in DHCP: 'ifconfig_XXX=DHCP' where XXX is the name of your wireless card. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt pgpofS4O5qsyT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: WIFI DHCP
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:52:01PM -0700, Beecher Rintoul wrote: I would like to use a wireless card as my primary internet connection. I have read the manual and see nothing mentioned about setting up the card to use DHCP. Then you've looked in the wrong place. :-) I do not have a static ip on the access point I'm connecting to. How do I set the card to use DHCP? Look at section 23.5 (Automatic Network Configuration). In short: - make sure that device bpf is in the kernel (it is in GENERIC) - edit /etc/rc.conf to put the interface in DHCP: 'ifconfig_XXX=DHCP' where XXX is the name of your wireless card. Additionally... you should man dhclient, dhclient.conf, and dhclient.leases. IMHO: `ifconfig_XXX=DHCP` is only part of the equation. You may have to craft a dhclient.conf file to help your card associate with its access point. The dhclient.conf file will help you specify things like the SSID, weptxkey, wepmode, mode (11a, 11b, or 11g), wepkey, etc Roland -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WIFI DHCP
--- Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:52:01PM -0700, Beecher Rintoul wrote: I would like to use a wireless card as my primary internet connection. I have read the manual and see nothing mentioned about setting up the card to use DHCP. Then you've looked in the wrong place. :-) I do not have a static ip on the access point I'm connecting to. How do I set the card to use DHCP? Look at section 23.5 (Automatic Network Configuration). In short: - make sure that device bpf is in the kernel (it is in GENERIC) - edit /etc/rc.conf to put the interface in DHCP: 'ifconfig_XXX=DHCP' where XXX is the name of your wireless card. Additionally... you should man dhclient, dhclient.conf, and dhclient.leases. IMHO: `ifconfig_XXX=DHCP` is only part of the equation. You may have to craft a dhclient.conf file to help your card associate with its access point. The dhclient.conf file will help you specify things like the SSID, weptxkey, wepmode, mode (11a, 11b, or 11g), wepkey, etc Mr. Schuele was *very* helpful in the following post. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-October/059938.html Once I got a chipset that was supported by Project Evil (aka Mr. Paul's NDISulator) all was well. FYI, broadcom sucks... Intersil rules. *pciconf -vl* tells much. Good luck. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
