Problems with wifi and macbook

FW forkandwait at gmail.com
Thu Dec 3 04:58:22 UTC 2009


I have successfully installed freebsd on my macbook (yay!), but I
can't figure out how to make the wifi work.  Wired networking works
great.

I am following the directions here :
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html,
but I have only got up to section 31.3.3.1, since I can't get past the
scanning part.

My ifconfig output is attached (can't figure out cutting and pasting
in icewm with the single mouse thing).  When I try run ifconfig ath0
scan, I get "ifconfig: unable to get scan results".  My loader.conf is
attached to -- I presume that the kernels are loadd, but I can't
figure out how to check.  I DO see ath0 in the dmesg.

Any help is appreciated!
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msk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=11a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4>
	ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 
	inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex,flag0,flag1>)
	status: active
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
	ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 
	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
	status: no carrier
SNIP
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