On 2009 May 30, at 7:03 AM, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 06:48:59AM -0700, Ben Goren wrote: >> I'm trying to set up my first wireless network, with less than >> stellar >> success. > > You need to narrow your spectrum of diagnosis. Start ruling out those > things which are known to work. Rule out those things which are known > to work and you'll be left with the thing(s) that don't. > > Examples: > > - OpenBSD wireless connectivity (as a client) > - OpenBSD wired connectivity > - Mac wired connectivity > - Mac wireless connectivity (to a different WAP) > - etc...
I've done as much of that as I can -- or, at least, as much as I can think of. The two computers have no trouble talking to each other over wired ethernet. Indeed, for several seconds, they communicate just fine over wireless -- my problem is that it only lasts for several seconds, after which the entire wireless connection is dropped and the iMac is no longer associated with any network. I don't have any other hardware to test with. I've thought of and tried a couple other things since this morning. There's one of those infamous ``linksys'' networks somewhere in the vicinity, but apparently not nearby. I was able to connect to it from the iMac a while ago and do a bit of (very slow) surfing, and even open an ssh session back to the laptop. I can't seem to re-connect to it now, and I haven't been able to connect to it from the laptop. There are a couple other networks in the area that aren't using any form of wireless security, but they have official-sounding names like ``ASUEMPLOYEE.'' I can connect to them from either computer -- and the connection doesn't go away -- but no DHCP servers will talk to me. I've also tried setting up the laptop in both ibss and ibss-master mode. With ibss-master, ifconfig always reports ``no network.'' However, if I set the iMac up as an ibss-master, I can connect to it from the OpenBSD laptop, get a DHCP lease from it, and ping the iMac. So, it seems that everything works except for sustaining a link from the iMac to the OpenBSD laptop as a hostap for more than several seconds. Surely I must be missing something obvious? Cheers, b& [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
