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I've been trying to get the wifi working on my IBM thinkpad 240x for a few days now but I seem to have gotten stuck. I'm using an Intel 2100 MiniPcie card with the ipw firmware (https://man.openbsd.org/ipw). I previously tried using a Intel 2915ABG with the iwi firmware but kept getting firmware errors so I replaced it with the 2100. I believe I have managed to connect to my WPA2 secured network (judging by the output of my ifconfig) but im not able to get any further. And running DHCP (dhclient ipw0 or sh /etc/netstart) keeps outputting the same timeout message, No link......sleeping No further error messages than that. I have configured my ifconfig through the /etc/hostname.ipw0 file as advised in the man page, my config is as follows. /// nwid hotspot wpakey password chan up wpaprotos wpa2 inet 10.220.1.156 255.255.255.0 dhcp /// This then results in ifconfig outputting the following /// ipw0: flags=808843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,AUTOCONF4> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:0c:f1:24:1c:2a index 1 priority 4 llprio 3 groups: wlan media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS11 mode 11b) status: active ieee80211: nwid hotspot chan 7 bssid 30:23:03:1a:4c:7a -18dBm wpakey wpaprotos wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers ccmp wpagroupcipher ccmp inet 10.220.1.156 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.220.1.255 /// I have also added this to my rc.conf as advised here https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/solved-re0-no-link-giving-up-my-card-driver-or-dhcp-server-problem.4566/ /// ifconfig_ipw0="DCHP" /// This is where I get stuck, dhcp still timeouts and gives me the error message, im able to ping 10.220.1.156 but no other ip from the router, this make me believe the issues is to be solved with the route command, "route show" outputs this. /// Internet Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Mtu Interface 10.220.1/24 10.220.1.156 Cn 0 0 - 8 ipw0 10.220.1.156 00:0c:f1:24:1c:2a UHLl 0 0 - 1 ipw0 10.220.1.255 10.220.1.156 Hb 0 0 - 1 ipw0 /// What is known that the network is named "hotspot" passworded with "password", its gateway is "10.220.1.1" I am also aware of certain IBM thinkpads having issues with unauthorized MiniPCI cards as brought up here http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_unauthorized_MiniPCI_network_card but this is only a BIOS whitelist and the combo im using has been comfirmed to be working on the thinkpads forum and the BIOS accepts the card. So where do I go now, is the routing correct? I dont know much about ip routing and gateways, maybe someone knows some good resources where I can learn so I wont have to come asking for help again. I read the following and thought I might be having a similar issue but I know too little about internet configurations to make much of it. https://serverfault.com/a/581162 -- [email protected] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org
