Subject: Re: Lucent WLAN wireless setup
To: Francisco Valladolid <francisco@vmicrosistemas.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/07/2005 18:30:12
In message <41DF1848.6090001@vmicrosistemas.com>, Francisco Valladolid writes:
> Hi, folks
>
>I have a Lucent WAVE LAN wireless PCMCIA card, i'am testint this in my 
>IBM T21 Laptop, also i has read the document in the netbsd web site 
>about the config this card, but until now, i can't configure this.
>
>The procedure is the next:
>
>1.- I'am running NetBSD 2.0 rel.
>2,- I have a Linksys access point. conected to hub Linksys also, the IP 
>for this access point is: 192.168.1.x
>3.-  My laptop has the wireless card attached in the slot 1, then, i do 
>the following.
>
>
>/home/ficovh $> sudo ifconfig wi0 ssid  <some>
>/home/ficovh $> sudo ifconfig wi0 chan 6
>/home/ficovh $> sudo ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.1.x netmask 0xffffff00 
>media autoselect
>
>The access point is conected and working.
>
>My wi card is active with IP set.
>
>now, i can't ping to other machines in the internal net. Can some help o 
>sugestions.
>
>Best Regards.
>
>Fco. Valladolid.
>
>
You definitely don't need to set 'chan'.  What does it say if you just 
run 'ifconfig wi0'?  (And what release of NetBSD is this?)

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb