On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 01:19:05PM -0400, Michael wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> wi0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>mtu
>> 1500
>> 	ssid myssid
>> 	powersave off
>> 	address: 00:20:a5:00:00:08
>> 	media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS2)
>> 	status: no network
>> 	inet 192.168.15.45 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.15.255
>
> Looks good.
> When it hooks up with an AP it should add something like this::
>         bssid 00:0c:41:51:2b:f6 chan 1
>
>
>> I've never played with wireless under *nix before, so the above is as
>> close as I've gotten.  The "status: no network" tells me I'm still
>> missing something. (the ssid *is* set to my net's ssid in the real
>> output).
>
> Hmm, do you use WEP? If you do you need to tell wi which key to use.
> This may not work though - some people reported problems with WEP. ( I
> don't use it - my AP filters solely by MAC address ) This would be
> ifconfig wi0 nwkey "xxxxx"

D'OH!

I use MAC filtering too.  I so rarely have new clients, I tend to forget
about that, I was just figuring it was something I was doing wrong on
the NetBSD side of things. *grin*

Trying again (using this morning's kernel).... and it works! 

ep0 now works too!

# ifconfig -a
le0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 00:00:83:ae:20:37
        media: Ethernet autoselect (10base5)
        status: active
        inet 192.168.15.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.15.255
ep0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 00:60:97:89:d4:19
        media: Ethernet 10baseT
        inet 192.168.15.46 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.15.255
wi0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        ssid ssid
        powersave off
        bssid 00:12:17:02:c3:7a chan 3
        address: 00:20:a5:00:00:08
        media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS2)
        status: active
        inet 192.168.15.45 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.15.255
lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 33192
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000

3 interfaces on my Sparcbook! 

>> I don't seem to have the /dev/rwd0 stuff, so I can't read the
>> disklabel!
>> (oops) Got the major/minors for that?
>
> mknod -l should tell you:
> wd character major 26 block major 12

Using the 2.0 userland (might be time to upgrade that):

# mknod -l
mknod: unknown option -- l
usage: mknod [-rR] [-F format] [-m mode] [-u user] [-g group]
                   [ name [b | c] major minor
                   | name [b | c] major unit subunit
                   | name [b | c] number
                   | name p ]

But I found it in a prev post.

> on -current you can just use
> MAKEDEV wd0
>
>>> No news on X though - I didn't get the graphics chip to switch to 16
>>> or 32bit colour yet, the SPARCbook 3 Technical Manual is incomplete
>>> and at times misleading.
>>
>> You'll figure it out, I've got faith. =)
>
> We'll see ;)

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org