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List:       openbsd-newbies
Subject:    Re: wireless bwi0
From:       Michael <bsd4me () cableone ! net>
Date:       2009-01-30 19:48:55
Message-ID: 20090130194855.GA6860 () box ! my ! domain
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 05:11:09PM +0100, soc@visca.com wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks. Tried that but that didn't work either. I also see that there is a small \
error in my first post: What I get on booting is: bwi0: no link .............sleeping

I just tried this in /etc/hostname.bwi0:
dhcp nwid mynwid wpa wpapsk $(wpa-ps mynwid mynwkey)

ifconfig -a shows:

bwi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        lladdr 00:16:ce:49:a8:e1
        groups: wlan
        media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS1)
        status: no network
        ieee80211: nwid mynwid wpapsk 0xabunchofhexdecimal wpaprotos wpa1,wpa2 \
wpaakms psk,802.1x wpaciphers tkip,ccmp wpagroupcipher tkip  inet6 \
                fe80::216:ceff:fe49:a8e1%bwi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
enc0: flags=0<> mtu 1536


Still no network connection :( 
Am I making this too hard? 

Thanks.

Mike

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> Lou Hevly
> soc@visca.com
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