wireless bwi0

Michael bsd4me at cableone.net
Fri Jan 30 15:01:57 CET 2009


Hi all. I bought a router yesterday and I'm trying to get OpenBSD working with it. It's a Broadcom airforce 802.11g and works with Windows and linux. I downloaded the bwi driver for OpenBSD and followed the man page for bwi. 
I created /etc/hostname.bwi0 and tried each example shown in the man page.
I started with dhcp NONE NONE NONE in my /etc/hostname.bwi0 and upon booting, the wireless led lit up a few times, but the screen showed "bwi0 .......no link".
I then tried "dhcp nwid mynetworkid", tried rebooting and got the same response.
I then tried "dhcp nwid mynetworkid nwkey mynetworkkey" and then tried "route flush" and "sh /etc/netstart bwi0". Same thing :( 
This is my first try at wireless with OpenBSD, so what am I doing wrong? Something simple, I'm sure, but I'm missing it whatever it is. 

Thanks for your help.

Mike


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