wireless question

Fabian Keil freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de
Thu Mar 2 08:35:52 PST 2006


Lorin Lund <wbs at infowest.com> wrote:

> WiFi works for Windows XP on my dual-boot Toshiba notebook.  But with
> FreeBSD it is doing nothing.
> I have PCCard enabled in rc.conf.
> I added the recommended line to loader.conf (per wi0 man page) that
> didn't seem to make any difference

Looks like you have device wi already in the kernel.
 
> ifconfig wi0 scan
>   shows nothing.
> ifconfig wi0 list scan
>   shows nothing
> ifconfig wi0 list ap
>   shows nothing

You have to do a

ifconfig wi0 up

first.

Fabian
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