iwi connect problems in 9.0-CURRENT

[martinko]

michael brindle wrote:
> Hey all.
> I recently upgraded to 9.0-CURRENT from 7.2-RELEASE, to help test and debug
> it.
> The only problem I've encountered so far that I've not yet been able to fix
> is that I have yet to get my wireless card (Intel IPW 2200 b/g) to connect
> to my wireless network (which has an Apple Airport as the wireless router).
>

Hallo, I've just upgraded to 8.0-release and I'm seeing some issues too.

> my /etc/rc.conf file (with unrelated parts deleted):
> wlans_iwi0="wlan0"
> defaultroute=192.168.1.1
> ifconfig_wlan0="up"
> ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP"
>
> my /etc/start_if.wlan0 file:
> ifconfig wlan0 ssid BrinNet channel 1 authmode shared wepmode on wepkey PASS
> weptxkey 1
>

First, off-topic, I'm wondering why you do it as above .. ?

These 2 lines are IMHO unnecessary:
defaultroute=192.168.1.1
ifconfig_wlan0="up"

Also, you could get rid off of /etc/start_if.wlan0 and use 
wpa_supplicant(8) that is very convenient and powerful.

> with the license agreed to, as stated in the iwi(4) man page.
>
> dhclient will discover my network. However, it won't get any offers from it.
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
> No DHCPOFFERS received.
> No working leases in persistent database - sleeping
>
> Another thing I noticed, the output of ifconfig wlan0
> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>  metric 0 mtu 1500
>          ether 00:0e:35:20:37:0a
>          inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
>          media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11b
>          status: associated
>          ssid BrinNet channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b) bssid 00:60:1d:f1:51:1b
>          country US authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit
>          txpower 0 bmiss 24 scanvalid 60 wme
>
> most importantly, the txpower being set to 0, because I cannot change it at
> all, or even reconfirm that it's at 0:
> younata# ifconfig wlan0 txpower 1
> ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Operation not supported
> younata# ifconfig wlan0 txpower 0
> ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Operation not supported
>
> So, my questions are:
> Why is txpower set to 0, what does that mean? That it can't transmit at all?
> Why can I not manually change it?
> Which leads to the ultimate question of:
> How do I get it to connect?
>

The same here -- txpower is zero while it used to be non-zero before (on 
6.x).  Seems like a bug or something.

Regards,

Martin