>
>
> Can you post your dmesg?
>
>
> --
> Cold, adj.:
>        When the politicians walk around with their hands in their own
> pockets.
>

Great News at last!. Turns out that I was making a silly mistake but somehow
went undetected. For the <nwkey> value as part of ifconifig, I was not
giving a hex value, i.e.,

#ifconfig ath0 192.168.1.3 255.255.0. nwid <nwid> nwkey 1234

whereas I should have been giving

#ifconfig ath0 192.168.1.3 255.255.255.0 nwid <nwid> nwkey 0x1234

then I do /etc/netstart, lo behold! everything starts working, dhclient
starts working, ping google.com starts working.

But what is puzzling to me why my error was never detected, should "ifconfig
ath0 scan" work if I have given the wrong nwkey?. If it had thrown some
error, then I could have been focusing my time on giving the right
parameters for ifconfig, rather it made me look all over the system, until I
stumbled upon the solution by having a N-th look at the man page for
ifconfig. This problem literally drove me nuts.

-m
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