Re: dhclient and wpa_supplicant

From: Rene Ladan (r.c.ladan_at_student.tue.nl)
Date: 07/30/05

  • Next message: Julian Elischer: "Re: Apparent strange disk behaviour in 6.0" 
    Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 12:10:04 +0200
To: Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com>

    On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 05:30:42AM +0000, Ben Kaduk wrote:
    >
    > ndis0: <Dell TrueMobile 1400 Dual Band WLAN Mini-PCI Card> mem
    > 0xfaff6000-0xfaff7fff irq 9 at device 3.0 on pci2
    > ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0
                               ^^^
    You should use NDIS API version 5.1, which comes with the
    Windows XP drivers.
    > ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:90:4b:2d:46:ce
    >
    > When I issue an:
    >
    > prolepsis# ifconfig ndis0 inet up ssid 'NetworkXcAe5@r' wepmode on
    > wepkey 0xdeadc0de
    >
    > my interface associates fine, giving me this:
    >
    > prolepsis# ifconfig ndis0
    > ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    > inet6 fe80::290:4bff:fe2d:46ce%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
    > ether 00:90:4b:2d:46:ce
    > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
    > status: associated
                                  ^^^^^^
    You should get a bssid here.

    > ssid NetworkXcAe5@r bssid 00:12:17:1d:f7:08
    > authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF wepkey 1:40-bit txpowmax 100
    It might be safer to define a default transmit key, but I'm not sure on
    that.
    >
    > but when I run:
    >
    > prolepsis# dhclient ndis0
    > DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
    > DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
    > DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
    > DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
    > DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
    > DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
    > No DHCPOFFERS received.
    > No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
    >
    > prolepsis# ifconfig ndis0
    > ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    > inet6 fe80::290:4bff:fe2d:46ce%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
    > inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
    > ether 00:90:4b:2d:46:ce
    > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
    > status: associated
    > ssid NetworkXcAe5@r bssid 00:12:17:1d:f7:08
    > authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF wepkey 1:40-bit txpowmax 100
    >
    >
    > dhclient doesn't seem to pick it up. I know this ap is actually
    > running a dhcp server; it works on darwin.
    >
    > I have read that using ifconfig for wireless (encryption?) is not the
    > way of the future, that I should be using wpa_supplicant,
    WPA uses a stronger encryption than WEP, ifconfig is just a tool to
    configure network interfaces. In theory it could support WPA.
    >
    > Thanks for putting in all this effort.
    >
    > Ben Kaduk

    Regards,
    Rene 

    -- 
GPG fingerprint = 5FFA 3959 3377 C697 8428  24D0 BF3E F4A9 AE33 5DCC
"It won't fit on the line."
		-- me, 2001

  • Next message: Julian Elischer: "Re: Apparent strange disk behaviour in 6.0"