Wireless NIC in FreeBSD 6.0 ?
Fabian Keil
freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de
Sun Dec 25 02:11:14 PST 2005
Yuan Jue <yuanjue02 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anybody success to use wireless NIC in FreeBSD6.0 in HP NC6000?
> Back to FreeBSD 5.4, my wireless card just works, but not in FreeBSD
> 6.0.
>
> I use the following steps to try to use my wireless card:
> 1.change to root, then "kldload if_ath"
> after this, I can use "kldstat" to see this:
> Id Refs Address Size Name
> 1 9 0xc0400000 328db0 kernel
> 2 1 0xc0729000 bc40 kqemu.ko
> 3 16 0xc0735000 5683c acpi.ko
> 6 1 0xc296a000 e000 if_ath.ko
> 7 1 0xc2978000 3000 ath_rate.ko
> 8 1 0xc297b000 24000 ath_hal.ko
> and use "ifconfig" to see this:
> bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> options=1a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
> inet 166.111.208.143 netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast
> 166.111.209.255 ether 00:0d:9d:90:e0:68
> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
> status: active
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> ath0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> ether 00:11:85:1b:21:79
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
> status: no carrier
> ssid "" channel 1
> authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 protmode CTS
>
> 2.I use DHCP to get my IP address. "dhclient ath0"
> the response is this:
> DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPACK from 166.111.208.1
> bound to 166.111.208.137 -- renewal in 3600 seconds.
> and use "ifconfig" can see:
> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet 166.111.208.137 netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast
> 166.111.209.255 ether 00:11:85:1b:21:79
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/36Mbps)
> status: associated
> ssid A314b channel 11 bssid 00:09:5b:d1:fa:c4
> authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 30 protmode CTS bintval 100
>
> it seems that the wireless NIC should be working now, right?
> but when i try to ping some IP which definitely should be connected
> from the IP address I have got, like :
> ping 166.111.8.28 (this is the DNS server)
> the result is this:
> PING 166.111.8.28 (166.111.8.28): 56 data bytes
> ping: send to: No route to host
> ping: send to: No route to host
> ping: send to: No route to host
> ping: send to: No route to host
> ping: send to: No route to host
> ping: send to: No route to host
> ping: send to: No route to host
> ping: send to: No route to host
> ^C
> --- 166.111.8.28 ping statistics ---
> 17 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
>
What does netstat -r say?
Fabian
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