wireless and/or routing question

[Da Rock]

On 01/13/12 15:29, Waitman Gobble wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running 9.0-RC3 i386 on an Acer Aspire One D150. i am having trouble
> with the wireless setup.
>
> I have two wireless cards, the BCM94312MCG that came with it, and an
> Atheros 5424/2424 that i swapped out. I can run the BCM with ndis and the
> windows xp driver, and the Atheros with the ath driver that is installed
> with FreeBSD. (But BCM/ndis is noticeably much slower, Atheros - no green
> "wireless" light appears on netbook )
>
>   i am getting the same results with either nic card, and i think i am just
> missing something simple.
>
>
> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>  metric 0 mtu 2290
> ether 00:24:2b:ad:d6:5f
> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
> status: associated
>
>   wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>  metric 0 mtu 1500
> ether 00:24:2b:ad:d6:5f
> inet 10.0.0.21 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/24Mbps mode 11g
> status: associated
> ssid CUDAPANG channel 6 (2437 MHz 11g) bssid 00:22:3f:9b:b8:aa
> regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1
> wepkey 1:104-bit txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan
> bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS
> wme burst
>
> connecting:
>
> ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0
> ifconfig wlan0 up scan
> ifconfig wlan0 inet 10.0.0.21 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid CUDAPANG wepmode
> on weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:0x10961323931B628F844360718A
>
>
> scan results:
>
> p00ntang# ifconfig wlan0 up scan
> SSID/MESH ID    BSSID              CHAN RATE   S:N     INT CAPS
> CUDAPANG        00:22:3f:9a:16:1b    6   54M -69:-93  100 EPS  ATH
> CUDAPANG        00:22:3f:9b:b8:aa    6   54M -68:-93  100 EPS  WME ATH
> Abujie          00:14:6c:7a:98:ec    6   54M -89:-93  100 EPS  RSN WPA ATH
> TDMA
> chavez family   00:c0:02:11:22:33    6   54M -88:-93  100 EP   HTCAP RSN
> WME WPS
>
> My machine shows up on the wireless router as a "connected device" w/
> correct mac and ip showing
>
> But i cannot ping gw, no machine on lan or outside. (no route to host)
>
> p00ntang# netstat -nr
> Routing tables
>
> Internet:
> Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif Expire
> default            10.0.0.1           UGS         0     3338   ale0
> 10.0.0.0/24        link#2             U           0     2405   ale0
> 10.0.0.20          link#2             UHS         0        0    lo0
> 10.0.0.21          link#9             UHS         0        2    lo0
> 127.0.0.1          link#8             UH          0       12    lo0
>
> I do not see "ath0' or wlan0 in the routing table under 'Netif', not sure
> if that's the problem :)
>
>
> p00ntang# less /etc/rc.conf
> hostname="p00ntang"
> ifconfig_ale0=" inet 10.0.0.20 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> defaultrouter="10.0.0.1"
> sshd_enable="YES"
> ntpd_enable="YES"
> # Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable
> dumpdev="NO"
> fusefs_enable="YES"
> hald_enable="YES"
> dbus_enable="YES"
> moused_enable="YES"
> snddetect_enable="YES"
> mixer_enable="YES"
> avahi_daemon_enable="YES"
> ices0_enable="YES"
>
>
> p00ntang# grep ath /boot/loader.conf
> if_ath_load="YES"
> p00ntang# grep wlan /boot/loader.conf
> wlan_wep_load="YES"
> wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
> wlan_tkip_load="YES"
>
>
>
> i've tried /etc/rc.d/routing restart.. no worky :)
>
> here's my wired connection ifconfig  --- wired connection works :)
>
> ale0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>  metric 0 mtu 1500
> options=c319a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE>
> ether 00:23:5a:59:e1:e4
> inet 10.0.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
> inet6 fe80::223:5aff:fe59:e1e4%ale0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX<full-duplex>)
> status: active
>
>
>
>
> any help/suggestions much appreciated!
The solution is simple, but I know the frustration well.

Your problem is that the route is looking to go through your wired 
network port, you started the network on the wired and then switched to 
wifi so the routing needs to change.

Run as root: "route change default -interface wlan0" will fix that 
temporarily. To fix it permanently (better for a laptop situation 
anyway, I feel), setup a lagg port including ale0 and wlan0. See 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-aggregation.html

Good luck and happy networking!