>Number: 169199 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Cannot set up static ip addresses for wireless with wpa >encryption >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Jun 18 14:00:22 UTC 2012 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Don Allen >Release: 9.0 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: During installation of 9.0 on a Thinkpad G41 with an Atheros-based pcmcia wireless card, I ran into trouble trying to set up wireless networking. I have multiple machines behind a NAT router and I want static IP addresses that I can stick in /etc/hosts so, for example, I can ssh from one to the other, rsync my home directory, etc. The installer found my base station just fine, accepted the wpa pass key and then asked if I wanted to do IPV4 setup. Yes. DHCP or static? Static, please. I then entered the IP address, netmask, and gateway address and clicked 'ok'. I immediately ended up back at the page that gives you a choice of network interfaces to configure. It did not proceed, as the Handbook suggests and as one would expect, to collect addresses of DNS servers and ask if I wanted to do IPV6 configuration. I have done this multiple times to no avail. The information I entered was correct. And if it was not, I would expect an error message, which I did not get. If I just click 'cancel ' when it mysteriously loops back, I can proceed with the rest of the install, but none of the static IP setup info makes it into /etc/rc.conf or anywhere else.
My wireless base station does allow you to configure its DHCP server to assign IP addresses based on MAC address, so the address assigned to a particular machine is predictable. I prefer using static IP addresses because it avoids the handshake time with the DHCP server every time you boot. But in this case, I was unable to get static IP address assignment working, so I resorted to DHCP, which did work. I do not know if this problem is wireless-specific or wpa-specific; I can only speak about my own specific case. I will not be able to do anything further with this machine on this problem, as I abandoned the install of FreeBSD -- just too many problems during installation. >How-To-Repeat: Do install as described above. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
