On 01/22/2015 03:41 PM, Alan Corey wrote: > It's like there's no DHCP > server out there, dhclient times out looking. The phone is an Android > (4.4.2) so if I knew what I was doing I could look there. It is > rooted and I could poke around in it.
I'm guessing you want to use your phone as a hotspot for openBSD. So you turn on the hotspot feature in the phone an IT ACTS like a router and DHCP server, and it usually (if you are wise) is set up to use wpa2 (aes) security. Then you will need a file named hostname.ath0 (the last part will vary with the name of your wifi card) in the /etc directory. attrs: 640 in that file you have something like nwid (name-of-your-phone-accesspoint) wpakey (your wifi access point password dhcp Then it just seems to work automatically. -- Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.