On 01/23/13 00:55, 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...
I've never had this problem before. Last time I switch routers, I just
changed nwid, and wpakey with ifconfig, then ran dhclient for athn0 and it
worked.
This time i've tried setting chan, bssid, nwid, nwkey, wpakey, and wpaakms.
I've et these parameters with ifconfig, and also entered into my
/etc/hostname.athn0 file
I've also tried entering (into the /etc/hostname.athn0 file) "dhcp" and
"dhcp NONE NONE NONE" before any parameters.
Usually, the anth0 won't link, just sleeps. But sometimes I can get it to
send some DHCPREQUESTs and DHCPDISCOVERs before sleeping... >_<
Um...I haven't changed much. Just edited the /etc/pf.conf file (just delete
all blank lines and comments to make it smaller :P) and did whatever
afterboot said, oh and also right at the end of /etc/netstart I added
"ifconfig athn0 lladdr random" to randomize my MAC on each boot.
Don't do that. If you really want it, just put "lladdr random" first in
the hostname.athn0 file.
Ooooh... did you put it *last* in netstart? Meaning you change MAC
address *after* starting dhclient and friends? Sounds like a really bad
idea to me.
Sometimes I try running /etc/netstart athn0 instead of dhclient athn0.
Oh, and also I edited /etc/dhclient.conf a little, just to make it try
longer before going to sleep, but doesn't help.
Anyone have any ideas??? I'm totally stuck! (reading RFC 2131 right now...)
Here's my /etc/hostname.athn0 file:
-wol group egress chan 11 bssid ****** nwid ****** nwkey ****** wpakey
****** wpaakms pks
dhcp NONE NONE NONE
And here is ifconfig athn0:
athn0 flag=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr: ******
priority: 4
groups: wlan egress
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS1 mode 11g)
Status: no network
And when I scan (sudo ifconfig athn0 scan) I get something like this (forgot
to write down so from memory):
ieee80211: nwid ****** chan 11 bssid ****** 3dB 54MB privacy,
short_preamble, short_slottime
wpakey <not displayed> wpaprotos wpa1, wpa2 wpakms psk wpaciphers tkip, ccmp
wpagroupcipher tkip
inet ****** prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
Um...when I looked at the router (It's a D-LINK connected to a Telus DSL
box) there is a sticky note on it that says "Wireless: NO DHCP"...but
everyone else is using wireless internet...
Also , when I scan for networks, not only does the network name appear, but
so does a DLINK and a TELUS network.
MAIN PROBLEM: Athn0 won't link...1/10 times it will it seems, after I fiddle
with it...
I have a feeling this is a simple config file problem, but I'm just not used
to editing conf files.
Am I going about this the right way? (i.e. editing /etc/dhclient.conf,
pf.conf, /etc/hostname.athn0, /etc/myname, and running /etc/netstart,
ifconfig, and dhclient?)????
You should likely only need to edit hostname.athn0
/Alexander
