D-Link NIC.

Fabian Keil freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de
Fri Mar 11 11:05:13 PST 2005


gabriel <normal1.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay, so I've managed to get the Wless nic talking to the Access Point
> (per the logs) but I'm having problems getting an ip address. Check
> out the dhclient output:
> 
> dolores# dhclient -v ndis0
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1
> Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
> 
> Listening on BPF/ndis0/00:11:95:87:8b:e4
> Sending on   BPF/ndis0/00:11:95:87:8b:e4
> Sending on   Socket/fallback
> DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
> DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
> DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
> DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
> No DHCPOFFERS received.
> No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
> dolores#
> 
> here's the ifconfig ndis0 output:
> 
> ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet6 fe80::211:95ff:fe87:8be4%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 
>         inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
>         ether 00:11:95:87:8b:e4
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
>         status: associated
>         ssid normal1 at gmail.com 1:normal1 at gmail.com
>         channel 8 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
>         rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS
>         wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1
>         wepkey 1:104-bit
> 
> Anyone that has experienced this before? Any ideas?

As you can read below, I already assumed, that you don't
have "device bpf" in your kernel. Can you confirm or deny it?
 
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:00:58 -0800, gabriel <normal1.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thats a good script. How did you install the ndis driver/wrapper? -
> > Cause I think some of the problem may be there.
 
> > On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 19:54:38 +0100, Fabian Keil
> > <freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> > > "Subhro" <subhro.kar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> > > > > questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of gabriel
> > > > > Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 2:57
> > > > > To: freebsd-questions
> > > > > Subject: Re: D-Link NIC.

> > > > Are you positive that the DHCP function of your AP works perfectly? I am
> > > > asking thing because I have come across a couple of routers which happily
> > > > routes packets to static IPs but messes everything up as soon as it is asked
> > > > to handle DHCP.
> > >
> > > I guess the DHCP server is working, but Gabriel's kernel is lacking "device bpf"
> > > which is needed for dhclient.
> > >
> > > Otherwise the IP is set to 0.0.0.0 without error message, just as described.

Regards
Fabian
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