pccards

[Marcin Jessa]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:43:52 -0500
Robert Fitzpatrick <lists at webtent.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 21:11 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > do you have ath in your kernel?  If so, you may have to extract the
> > driver from the cdrom that came with the card and use ndis.
> > 
> 
> Yes, I finally figured this out that I needed ath and I do. Using the
> following command from the doc at:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD
> +5.3-RELEASE
> 
> # ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid WEBTENT
> # ifconfig
> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>         inet6 fe80::280:c8ff:fe1f:9655%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
>         ether 00:80:c8:1f:96:55
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
>         status: associated
>         ssid WEBTENT channel 6 bssid 00:05:5d:89:c8:78
>         authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 32 protmode CTS bintval 100
> 
> But cannot browse the network at all. I also have a wired connection
> to the network on the laptop and cannot ping the address assigned to
> the wireless card unless the wired connection is connected, why would
> this be?

Are those on the same network?
 
> Also, of course, as you can see above, I need to get WEP going, but
> not sure how to specify the WEP key in ASCII or determine the HEX
> needed from the ASCII key, can someone suggest how this is done? And
> I'd like to get it to use DHCP, how would I do this?

http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html