Wireless NIC in FreeBSD 6.0 ?

[Yuan Jue]

On Sunday 25 December 2005 18:10, you wrote:
> 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?

YuanJue# netstat -r
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif Expire
^C
YuanJue#  

thanks for the reply. what should I do now? 

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Best Regards.
Yuan Jue