Fw: WiFi Woes !

[Graham Bentley]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Bentley" <gbentley at uk2.net>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 4:15 PM
Subject: WiFi Woes !


> Hi All,
>
> Can any WiFi gurus help me with this one ?
>
> After clean minimal install of 6.1
>
> # kldload wlan_wep
> # kldload wlan_ccmp
> # kldload wlan_tkip
> # ifconfig ral0 inet 192.168.7.120 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid cpc channel
11
> wep wepkey 0x12345ABCDE
>
> ifconfig ral0 now reports an association, it has the bssid and chnl for my
> WAP
> correct and the little light comes on the WiFi card. I can ping the ip4
> address
> of the ral0 interface and get replies however I cant ping the wap or
router
> ?
>
> I have double checked the chnl, ssid and hex key all are correct.
>
> Have tried 'route add 192.168.7.1' and editting rc.conf by hand to no
avail.
>
> Anyone advise on this please ?
>
> Thanks !
>

I added 'deftxkey 1' and can now ping router however cannot ping external
addresses even by ip ... maybe I messed up by playing with 'route add' ?
How do I check that or put it back to install defaults ? Thanks !