Hi Stefan,
Stefan Sperling wrote:
Sounds like a wrong key, or the wrong type of crypto.
Are you the AP is using WEP? Perhaps you need 'wpakey' instead of 'nwkey'?
If the key is wrong or the crypto is wrong, would the interface still be
active and connected?
I am sure the AP is using WEP: I connect to that access point with many
computer since years.
Also, I tried connectiong to another access point which has WPA, same
failure.
If you want more help, please show commands you are typing and their output.
It is much easier to provide help when we can see what you are seeing,
instead of trying to guess what happened based on your verbal description.
Sure, to be more scientific about determining the issue, I proceeded
making a small script.
I invoked the script once with ipw0 - the internal interface, then with
a CardBus WiFi card I grabbed from another computer. I actually tested two.
sudo route delete default
sudo pkill dhclient
sudo ifconfig $1 up
sudo ifconfig $1 nwid westernesse-hlwpakey xxxxxxxxxx
sudo dhclient $1
whhere westernesse-hlis the access point with WPA, for the one with WEP,
I use the corresponding nwkey. This I love of OpenBSD: the lack of
wpasupplicant:
ipw0: internal 2100;
ipw0: flags=808843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,AUTOCONF4> mtu
1500
lladdr 00:0c:f1:1f:b2:a0
index 1 priority 4 llprio 3
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS11 mode 11b)
status: active
ieee80211: nwid westernesse-hl chan 2 bssid 78:b2:13:69:9e:91
-48dBm wpakey wpaprotos wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers ccmp wpagroupcipher ccmp
ral0:
ral0: flags=808843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,AUTOCONF4> mtu
1500
lladdr 00:22:b0:64:44:06
index 5 priority 4 llprio 3
groups: wlan egress
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (OFDM36 mode 11g)
status: active
ieee80211: nwid westernesse-hl chan 2 bssid 78:b2:13:69:9e:91
-115dBm wpakey wpaprotos wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers ccmp wpagroupcipher
ccmp
inet 192.168.1.137 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
of course the old card can connect only in 11b to the access point.
The script proves that the network settings if applied are correct and
do work and that I do not "mistype"!
If I try to scan, I see networks:
$ sudo ifconfig ipw0 scan
ipw0: flags=808843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,AUTOCONF4> mtu
1500
lladdr 00:0c:f1:1f:b2:a0
index 1 priority 4 llprio 3
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS11 mode 11b)
status: active
ieee80211: nwid westernesse-hl chan 2 bssid 78:b2:13:69:9e:91
-48dBm wpakey wpaprotos wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers ccmp wpagroupcipher ccmp
nwid Paredi chan 2 bssid 60:32:b1:d1:7e:96 -19dBm
HT-MCS15 privacy,short_preamble,short_slottime,wep
nwid westernesse chan 2 bssid 94:0c:6d:f7:a4:9c -46dBm
54M privacy,short_preamble,short_slottime,wep
nwid westernesse-hl chan 2 bssid 78:b2:13:69:9e:91
-52dBm HT-MCS23 privacy,wpa2
you can see both a WPA and WEP network which I can use plus another
network, apparently WEP enabled too. This proves that the card is
capable of receiving.
Riccardo
