NetBSD on NEC MobilePro 790 - Install Issue

returned:

472 ttyE0 R+ 0:00.06 grep wpa (sh)

So, nothing running. OK let me put 4.0 back on mine and see what's what.

Wow! that's very kind of you....

Thanks!

We were missing a couple of steps. Sorry about that.

First to check the functionality, please try the following:



If this goes as expected, we will modify /etc/rc.conf to add the following lines:



and then reboot.

By the way, I would also add the information about the network you want to connect to in your /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.

For example for a network called marksnetwork with no password:



EDIT: removed an extraneous line

Edited by thenzero 2022-12-27 9:07 PM

THANKS!

For the first line, isn't it in /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant.conf?

Tried what you typed and got:

Line 3: Invalid configuration line ` ctrl interface_group=wheel'.
Failed to read read or parse configuration `/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'


?

Looks like you missed an underscore in your /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file.

ctrl interface_group=wheel

should be

ctrl_interface_group=wheel

Oh, and my first quote block was stuff to type in the command line. I shoulda said that explicitly.

As in:

# wpa_supplicant -B -i wi0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
# wpa_cli status

and we should get some messages about it being connected.

EDIT: wpa_supplicant.conf typically goes in /etc, but you can technically put it wherever as long as that matches up to the path you give to wpa_supplicant.

Edited by thenzero 2022-12-27 10:06 PM

THANKS for your inputs and catching my typo! (I hate it when I do that....)

When I rebooted, dhclient was looking for offers.....

At prompt I did wpa_cli scan...returned
Selected interface `wi0'
OK

Thanks, I understood that you meant to type in command line.....

OK, sorry about that- I misread your statement about /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant.conf the first time through. I understand what you meant now.

Did ifconfig wi0 and got:

wi0: flags=8863<UP, BROADCAST, NO TRAILERS, RUNNING, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ssid "" nwkey65536: "", "", "", ""
powersave off
address: 00:10:7a:71:56:47
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS2)
status: no network
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
inet6 fe80::210:7aff:fe71:5647%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2


Please note I'm at office now...my personal laptop is connected to the 'guest network' that uses captive portal connection page to get connected.
So, assume I can't connect from here on 790, correct?

If I wait until I get home, I have secured network there....so, assume I'd have to delete password in network in order to have 790 connect, correct?



Edited by ArchiMark 2022-12-27 10:22 PM

No worries....thank you for being so patient with me and all my trials and tribulations with all this....

I know just enough to be dangerous with all this stuff.....

Woohoo, progress!

As far as I know, it should still be able to associate with your unsecured office network, assuming they both support the same wifi protocol, it just wouldn't be able to get out to anything further on the net (fine for the testing we're doing).

At home it depends on what kind of password you've got set up. NetBSD 4.0 supports WEP and WPA, but it's also dependent on what your card supports.

At this point what's in your wpa_supplicant.conf? Have you added a "network" section for your office network?

Thanks.....

From the network connection window for the guest network, I have the following info available:

Security: None

SSID: Guest

IPv4 Address: 100.125.245.46

IPv6 Address: fe80::a0e: def8:a9e9:8fa2

Hardware Address: 04:56:E5:6E:4F:E2

Default Route: 100.125.240.1

DNS 8.8.8.8 8.8.44

So, add some of this in wpa_supplicant.conf ?

Edited by ArchiMark 2022-12-27 10:46 PM