Saturday, September 23, 2017

Re: Wireless not working with Linksys

On 2017-09-23, Timo Myyrä <timo.myyra@wickedbsd.net> wrote:
> "Ted Unangst" <tedu@tedunangst.com> writes:
>
>> TimoMyyrä wrote:
>>
>>> I just got Linksys 1900ACS wireless router and it works great, except with
>>> OpenBSD. I've got Thinkpad T430s running -current and I can't get DHCP lease from the new
>>> router.
>>> I noticed lines: "dhclient[22294]: fatal in iwn0: yielding responsibility" in
>>> messages file which might be relating to this.
>>>
>>> Any ideas what could be the problem and how to begin debugging this further?
>>
>> Does it work with 6.0? Does the network appear in scan?
>
> Haven't tested the older release, as I said just got the new router.
> I can try later with older bsd.rd to see if it works with it.
>
> But scan results see the 2.4Ghz network but not the 5Ghz network:
>
> $ doas ifconfig iwn0 scan | grep MyNet
> nwid MyNet chan 11 bssid xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx -21dBm HT-MCS23 privacy,short_preamble,short_slottime,wpa2,wpa1
>
>
> timo
>
>

- does it associate or not? (Paste output from just "ifconfig iwn0")

- what shows up in logs if you do "ifconfig iwn0 debug" and then
"ifconfig iwn0 scan" ?

- it might be useful to capture some beacons:

tcpdump -n -s 4096 -y IEEE802_11_RADIO -v type mgt subtype beacon -i iwn0

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