Hi,

> When I try to configure the machine the wireless card is detected by
> the kernel and the network seems to be started correctly.  That is,
> ifconfig(8) and wiconfig(8) seem to report reasonable values.  Indeed,
> 'wiconfig wi0 -D' successfully scans for access points and detects the
> correct one.  'wiconfig wi0' reports the correct information about
> SSID, etc.

wiconfig wi0 -D shows the accesspoints that are available nothing
else... It doesn't update your interface.

> However, the network is actually nonfunctional.  For example, 'ping'
> reports no responses and 'arp -an' reports only an incomplete
> address.

Have you tried dhclient? Are there any Nameservers in
/etc/resolv.conf? Do you use ifwatchd with any scripts?

> Thanks for your help.

> Cheers,
> Brook

Uli

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