Wireless Networking Bug(s) in 9.1-RC2 (?)

Ronald F. Guilmette rfg at tristatelogic.com
Wed Oct 17 08:19:04 UTC 2012


In message <CAJ-Vmonk0xtmqPMFnCZp-YVzmC3-boeu0o9A4DwSeBGYC+5=sg at mail.gmail.com>
, you wrote:

>for wifi - you need to configure /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf as well,
>right?

Did that.  Yes.

>You don't need the ssid in the ifconfig line;

OK.  If you say so.  (See my prior e-mail where I wondered aloud if there
are circumstances where the ssid might have to appear in both places.)

 wpa_supplicant
9
>will scan and find your AP.
>
>The driver should call back to non-n and non-g if needs be.
>
>As for the config - erm, you have two interfaces on the same L2.
>That's going to confuse things, right?

Well, I can't speak for the hardware, but it sure as hell does confuse
*me*. (1/2 :-)

>What's 'netstat -rn' show?


Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif Expire
default            192.168.1.1        UGS         0   104122    re0
127.0.0.1          link#10            UH          0        0    lo0
192.168.1.0/24     link#4             U           0    23515    re0
192.168.1.21       link#11            UHS         0        0    lo0
192.168.1.23       link#4             UHS         0        0    lo0

Internet6:
Destination                       Gateway                       Flags      Netif Expire
::/96                             ::1                           UGRS        lo0
::1                               link#10                       UH          lo0
::ffff:0.0.0.0/96                 ::1                           UGRS        lo0
fe80::/10                         ::1                           UGRS        lo0
fe80::%re0/64                     link#4                        U           re0
fe80::224:21ff:fe65:ada0%re0      link#4                        UHS         lo0
fe80::%lo0/64                     link#10                       U           lo0
fe80::1%lo0                       link#10                       UHS         lo0
fe80::%wlan0/64                   link#11                       U         wlan0
fe80::222:fbff:fe76:6d18%wlan0    link#11                       UHS         lo0
ff01::%re0/32                     fe80::224:21ff:fe65:ada0%re0  U           re0
ff01::%lo0/32                     ::1                           U           lo0
ff01::%wlan0/32                   fe80::222:fbff:fe76:6d18%wlan0 U         wlan0
ff02::/16                         ::1                           UGRS        lo0
ff02::%re0/32                     fe80::224:21ff:fe65:ada0%re0  U           re0
ff02::%lo0/32                     ::1                           U           lo0
ff02::%wlan0/32                   fe80::222:fbff:fe76:6d18%wlan0 U         wlan0



P.S.  I ain't using IPv6... like not at all.


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