Wireless problems after upgrade to 4.10 (fwd)

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 09:27:18AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > From: Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com>
> > 
> > I'm running FreeBSD on an IBM ThinkPad X23. For wireless access, I've
> > been using an Orinoco Gold 802.11b card that's been working fine for
> > two years or so.
> > 
> > I just got around to upgrading from 4.9 to 4.10, and in the process
> > something seems to have gotten screwed up with my wireless networking.
> > I've made buildworld and made kernel, but not installworld or
> > mergemaster yet.

[...]

> > When I run dhclient, I get an IP address from my Linksys
> > router, but am unable to reach anything outside. I can
> > successfully ping the router, but trying to hit any outside
> > address, by name or IP, just hangs indefinitely. My usual
> > array of troubleshooting tips--killing the dhclient process,
> > deleting the dhclient.leases file, flushing the routing
> > table--has no effect.

[...]

> The fact that DHCP get an address and that you can ping the gateway
> indicates that the card is working. Sounds like you might not have a
> correct default route.
> 
> Do you see a reasonable response to 'netstat -rnf inet'?

Yes, I do--looks perfectly normal.

I have since brought the computer into my office, where I was
instantly able to hop on to an open access point that seems to
be in the neighborhood. This suggests that the problem must be
with my home router/AP. I don't know why this would be, as
it's been running fine for years, has the most basic
configuration, and is working with several other computers. But
I'm not sure what else to think about.

Thanks.

Jesse Sheidlower