[nycbug-talk] Newbie: Aironet 350 PCMCIA; How to join WEP network

[Okan Demirmen]

On Mon 2004.01.26 at 16:05 -0800, Michael Morefield wrote:

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> FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #3 

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> an0: flags=8843<UP, BROADCAST, RUNNING, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> 	inet6 fe80:20d:29ff:fe3a:64f1%an0 prefixlen64 scopeid 0x6
> 	inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
> 	ether 00:0d:29:3a:64:f1
> 	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
> 	status: no carrier
> 	ssid: "[Name]"
> 	stationname FreeBSD
> 	channel 6 authmode SHARED powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 200
> 	wepmode ON weptxkey 1
> 	wepkey 1:128-bit
> 
> "ping nycbug.org" results in:
> ping: cannot resolve nycbug.org: Host name lookup failure
> 
> /var/log/messges now includes the following lines at the end:
> 
> Jan 26 18:13:53 sparrow dhclient: send_packet: No buffer space available
> Jan 26 18:17:23 sparrow dhclient: send_packet: No buffer space available
> Jan 26 18:18:05 sparrow last message repeated 4 times
> Jan 26 18:28:53 sparrow last message repeated 11 times
> Jan 26 18:39:14 sparrow last message repeated 7 times
> Jan 26 18:47:42 sparrow last message repeated 9 times

netstat -m ?  are you running anything else (pf/ipf)?

also, try not starting dhclient until after you config your an(4).

i don't use freebsd, so i won't guess too much, but check the mbufs.

okan

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