WLAN hardware not recognized

Adrian Chadd adrian.chadd at gmail.com
Tue Mar 1 22:17:29 UTC 2016


Right, you need to create the interface:

ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev iwn0

then run wpa_spuplicant

(or do it all in /etc/rc.conf .. :)


-a


On 1 March 2016 at 14:13, Carsten Kunze <carsten.kunze at arcor.de> wrote:
> Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> sysctl net.wlan.devices
>>
>> iwn0 no longer shows up in ifconfig -a .
>>
>>
>> -a
>
> Ok, "sysctl -a|grep iwn" gives quite some output.
>
> Actually I tried to start wpa_supplicant, but WLAN didn't react.  Then--just for testing--I wrote "ifconfig iwn0 up", where ifconfig reported that iwn0 is unknown.
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