iwi connect problems in 9.0-CURRENT

[Rui Paulo]

On 22 Nov 2009, at 23:39, 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).
> 
> 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
> 
> 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?

No, it could just  be that the driver is providing wrong tx power information.

> Why can I not manually change it?
> Which leads to the ultimate question of:
> How do I get it to connect?

Try without WEP and see if the problem still persists. You could also try WPA.

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Rui Paulo