On 5/31/09, Ben Goren <b...@trumpetpower.com> wrote: > On 2009 May 30, at 7:03 AM, Jason Dixon wrote: > >> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 06:48:59AM -0700, Ben Goren wrote: >>> I'm trying to set up my first wireless network, with less than >>> stellar >>> success. >> >> You need to narrow your spectrum of diagnosis. Start ruling out those >> things which are known to work. Rule out those things which are known >> to work and you'll be left with the thing(s) that don't. >> >> Examples: >> >> - OpenBSD wireless connectivity (as a client) >> - OpenBSD wired connectivity >> - Mac wired connectivity >> - Mac wireless connectivity (to a different WAP) >> - etc... > > I've done as much of that as I can -- or, at least, as much as I can > think of. > > The two computers have no trouble talking to each other over wired > ethernet. > > Indeed, for several seconds, they communicate just fine over wireless > -- my problem is that it only lasts for several seconds, after which > the entire wireless connection is dropped and the iMac is no longer > associated with any network. > > I don't have any other hardware to test with. > > I've thought of and tried a couple other things since this morning. > There's one of those infamous ``linksys'' networks somewhere in the > vicinity, but apparently not nearby. I was able to connect to it from > the iMac a while ago and do a bit of (very slow) surfing, and even > open an ssh session back to the laptop. I can't seem to re-connect to > it now, and I haven't been able to connect to it from the laptop. > There are a couple other networks in the area that aren't using any > form of wireless security, but they have official-sounding names like > ``ASUEMPLOYEE.'' I can connect to them from either computer -- and the > connection doesn't go away -- but no DHCP servers will talk to me. > > I've also tried setting up the laptop in both ibss and ibss-master > mode. With ibss-master, ifconfig always reports ``no network.'' > > However, if I set the iMac up as an ibss-master, I can connect to it > from the OpenBSD laptop, get a DHCP lease from it, and ping the iMac. > > So, it seems that everything works except for sustaining a link from > the iMac to the OpenBSD laptop as a hostap for more than several > seconds. > > Surely I must be missing something obvious? > > Cheers, > > b&
How is your iMac getting its IP address? Have you set up dhcpd on the OpenBSD laptop? Fred
