On 11/12/2011 19:31, Christopher Hilton wrote:
> Good day,
>
> I'm trying to get FreeBSD going on a soekris box with an atheros based D-Link 
> PCI wifi card. I intend to use this combination to bridge a difficult network 
> back to ethernet but right now I'm just trying to get the soekris associated 
> to the network. The network is managed by an Apple Airport Extreme. Note that 
> this combination connects just fine to my MiFi 4082. I only have a problem 
> connecting to the Airport.
>
> The soekris box is running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE built from source about 
> 11/15/2011. 
>
> I have this in my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:
>
> network={
>     ssid="Vindaloo"
>     psk="************"
> }
>
> network={
>     ssid="Vindaloo-Mobile"
>     psk="**********"
> }
>
> If I read the wireless setup document right I need this in my /etc/rc.conf:
>
> wlans_ath0="wlan0"
> ifconfig_wlan0="ssid Vindaloo WPA DHCP"
>
> This box appears to associate with the network just fine but then it doesn't 
> receive anything except broadcast traffic.
>
If you then manually run
dhclient wlan0
once its booted and associated do you get a DHCP address?

Vince
>
> Chris Hilton                          e: chris /at/ vindaloo /dot/ com 
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