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So I used the following commands:

ifconfig athn0 nwid "Pretty fly for a wifi" wpakey myreallycoolkey

dhclient athn0

but I always get this:

athn0: no link ............. sleeping

dmesg output

athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch

athn0: unable to reset hardware; reset status 1

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athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch

Does your laptop have a switch that disables your 802.11 card? My Thinkpad has a little slider switch, which will disable the wireless card regardless of any software-based configuration I do. If you have an LCD indicating that your wireless card is "on" or transmitting, confirm that it is the correct color (amber, green, orange, etc.) and state (solid, blinking or off). Please refer to your manual for this information.

Also: More information regarding your client's operating system, platform, your access point, etc, would be useful.

Please read the How to Ask and the FAQ as well... good quality questions are just as important to SeverFault as good quality answers... and we're (or at least most of us are) certainly more charitable than OpenBSD-misc.

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Sorry, I wrote this on the fly. I currently run OpenBSD 4.9. I am able to connect to my neighbors unsecured wireless network (and it does by default on reboot). I have pressed and held the button down for turning on my wireless. The light is currently blinking. It was solid when it connected to my neighbors. My wireless router is called "Pretty fly for a wifi" and uses WPA2 personal. Whenever I connect to it I get the errors. – jim Jun 8 '11 at 8:22
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