wireless bwi0

[soc at visca.com]

At 07:01 AM 1/30/2009 -0700, Michael wrote:
>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.

It sounds like you're close; here's what works for me in 
/etc/hostname.ral0:

dhcp NONE NONE NONE nwid mynetworkid nwkey 0xmynetworkkey

Don't forget the '0x' preceding your networkkey.

-- 
All the best (Adéu-siau),
Lou Hevly
soc at visca.com
http://visca.com