Hi All,

I recently switched from ubuntu to OpenBSD 4.7 and trying to get the
internet connection working through my Netgear wireless router. The computer
has an Atheros 5212 wireless lan card and openbsd 4.7 just started
supporting it I believe.

Anyway, as part of CD based installation em0 (ethernet) and ath0 (wirelesss)
network interfaces could not be initialized. Subsequently, completed the
installation and after logon I read "man afterboot" as customary. Further, I
performed the below set of steps

ifconfig ath0 nwid <nwid> nwkey <nwkey>
ifconfig ath0 up

After the above two I did, I saw wireless indicator on the machine turn
green (good), then I did

dhclient ath0

I saw DHCPDISCOVER messages going out, but no OFFER of DHCP was received. I
made sure dhclient.conf file exists (as directed by openbsd man page) and
also in that file uncommented the "request" line. Additionally, I created
/etc/hostname.ath0 file and added the line

dhcp 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 NONE nwid <nwid> nwkey <nwkey>

After the above, I did

sh /etc/netstart

but no avail. The DHCP client request timed out.

Any ideas?. Thanks.

-m
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