Thanks for the tip about no 'n' band. Here's some more info: Here's my /etc/hostname.athn0 file:
-wol group egress chan 11 bssid ****** nwid ****** nwkey ****** wpakey ****** wpaakms pks dhcp NONE NONE NONE And here is ifconfig athn0: athn0 flag=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr: ****** priority: 4 groups: wlan egress media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS1 mode 11g) Status: no network And when I scan (sudo ifconfig athn0 scan) I get something like this (forgot to write down so from memory): ieee80211: nwid ****** chan 11 bssid ****** 3dB 54MB privacy, short_preamble, short_slottime wpakey <not displayed> wpaprotos wpa1, wpa2 wpakms psk wpaciphers tkip, ccmp wpagroupcipher tkip inet ****** prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 Um...when I looked at the router (It's a D-LINK connected to a Telus DSL box) there is a sticky note on it that says "Wireless: NO DHCP"...but everyone else is using wireless internet... Also , when I scan for networks, not only does the network name appear, but so does a DLINK and a TELUS network. Not sure what other information is relevant. MAIN PROBLEM: Athn0 won't link...1/10 times it will it seems, after I fiddle with it... I have a feeling this is a simple config file problem, but I'm just not used to editing conf files. Am I going about this the right way? (i.e. editing /etc/dhclient.conf, pf.conf, /etc/hostname.athn0, /etc/myname, and running /etc/netstart, ifconfig, and dhclient?)???? Thanks in advance!!! On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Peter N. M. Hansteen <[email protected]>wrote: > slhac tivist <[email protected]> writes: > > > I can get athn0 to "link", but then it sends a dozen DHCPREQUESTs, and > then > > sends DHCPDISCOVERs until it sleeps... > > > > I've never had this problem before. Last time I switch routers, I just > > changed nwid, and wpakey with ifconfig, then ran dhclient for athn0 and > it > > worked. > > Wireless networks are a pain in general, but the general advice is > anyway to make really sure your access point and your client are in fact > using the same settings. On this laptop, my /etc/hostname.iwn0 (not the > same part, I know, but for most practical purposes the same) has only > > media autoselect nwid nomap wpakey allfunnybusiness > dhcp > rtsol > > > This time i've tried setting chan, bssid, nwid, nwkey, wpakey, and > wpaakms. > > > > I've set these parameters with ifconfig, and also entered into my > > /etc/hostname.athn0 file. > > I've never had too much joy from setting those explicitly on the client, > but do check what the output of 'ifconfig athn0 scan' says about the > access point's settings, if anything. Worth noting is this bit from the > athn man page: > > CAVEATS > The athn driver does not support any of the 802.11n capabilities > offered > by the adapters. Additional work is required in ieee80211(9) before > those features can be supported. > > which means you will need to stick to a, b or g modes for now. > > - P > > -- > Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team > http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ > "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" > delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
