freebsd-mobile Digest, Vol 219, Issue 5

[ximo]

RE:
  1. wifi connection to resortwifi (Stephen Montgomery-Smith)

Try to do a Sysinstall as root in a console or xterm and reconfigure your
netconfiguration in this case your nic ndis or something like this, it's
what is named a postconfigure, other hint maybe I should not say it try
Ubuntu Live CD a.k.a. Dapper or Freesbie 2.0 in the last option probably you
need to do the postconfigure too :) Ximo

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> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 21:49:18 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at math.missouri.edu>
> Subject: wifi connection to resortwifi
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> I'm trying to connect to "Resort Wifi" whilst staying in my hotel.  I can
> get windows XP to connect fine, but FreeBSD seems to have a hard time with
> dhclient.  The problem seems to be that the resort wants to connect as if
> I had issued the following instructions:
>
> ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.4.190 netmask 255.255.255.255 up
> route add default 192.168.4.1
>
> If I do this by hand, I get an error message after the "route" command.  I
> can get around it by typing:
>
> ifconfig ndis0 netmask 255.255.255.0
> route add default 192.168.4.1
>
> where the netmask was chosen somewhat arbitrarily, and then it all works
> fine.  I get the feeling that "resortwifi" are doing something bad,
> perhaps taking an advantage of a bug in Windows XP that should reject this
> bogus DHCP assignment.
>
> Anyway, can any of you suggest a more permanent workaround?  I bet I'll
> get messed up when my dhcp assignment gets renewed.
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