Thank you. Your suggestions have helped. I gave up on DHCP., and can consistently get a link, but I can't even ping the router...here's some info:
cat /etc/hostname.athn0: inet 192.168.1.101 255.255.255.0 255.255.255.255 nwid "THENAME" nwkey "THEPASSWORD" which results in the following: sudo ifconfig athn0: athn0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr ************* priority: 4 groups: wlan egress media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS5 mode 11g) status: *active* # <----YAY NICE! ieee80211: nwid DAMEHIGH chan 11 bssid 0*************** 41dB nwkey <not displayed> inet 192.168.1.101 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::e6ac:35ff:fea9:5a9d%athn0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 route -vn show: Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Mtu Prio Iface Label default 192.168.1.254 UGS 0 0 - 12 athn0 127/8 127.0.0.1 UGRS 0 0 33196 8 lo0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 2 0 33196 4 lo0 192.168.1/24 link#1 UC 1 0 - 4 athn0 192.168.1.100 127.0.0.1 UGHS 0 0 33196 8 lo0 192.168.1.254 link#1 UHLc 1 21 - 4 athn0 224/4 127.0.0.1 URS 0 0 33196 8 lo0 Any ideas???? I'm totally stumped! Some miscellaneous anomalies that may or may not be related include: -tcpdump won't capture on athn0 -when i boot, /etc/netstart sets the default route to 192.168.1.253 ... and i always need to change it to 192.168.1.254 for the re0 to work -kind of weird...they've got a dsl box that provides internet+wireless...and a router connected to it (with the wireless turned off and dhcp off) using it as a hub ? to wire the rest of the house with ethernet? Anyway, if you've read this far ... THANKS! Any advice would be appreciated! On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Peter N. M. Hansteen <pe...@bsdly.net>wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 03:55:27PM -0800, slhactivist wrote: > > Hi there misc! I'm having trouble connecting to my router. Any help > would be > > appreciated. > > > > I can get athn0 to "link", but then it sends a dozen DHCPREQUESTs, and > then > > sends DHCPDISCOVERs until it sleeps... > > This sounds very much like no DHCP available. > > - Peter > -- > 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.