[laptop-discuss] ath does not receive broadcasts?

[Glenn Satchell]

>Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:40:59 PST
>From: Brian Boylston <brian_boylston at hotmail.com>
>To: laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
>Subject: [laptop-discuss] ath does not receive broadcasts?
>
>Hi,
>
>My limited understanding of networking and wireless stuff has led
>me to believe that the ath driver is not receiving broadcast packets:
>
>  . ath0 can use a static IP address.  If I plumb up the interface with
>    a static IP, most things work great (see arp below).  I can ssh to the
>    box, hit the web with wget, etc.
>
>  . ath0 is unable to get a DHCP address.  Using snoop on the Solaris
...
>I'm using WPA.  Can being unable to receive broadcasts be caused by the
>libcrypto business mentioned in the wpa_supplicant FAQ?  If so, where can
>I get the fancier SUNWcry package for nv b48?
>
...
>Thanks!
>Brian

Hi Brian,

It's the crypto thing. I had very similar problems and downloaded a
copy from http://www.sun.com/download Don't know if that will install
with nv though since that calls itself 5.11? I've got Solaris 10 update
2, with only the ath, wificonfig and wpa packages from opensolaris.org
installed.

regards,
-glenn