Can't get wifi working in 8.0, please help.

[alex_p]

Hello!
Here's my working rc.conf:

wlans_ral0="wlan0"
create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap mode 11g"
ifconfig_wlan0="inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid btest channel
11"

or you can do it by hand:
# ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ral0 wlanmode hostap
# ifconfig wlan0 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid btest
channel 11



On 5 янв, 05:31, Eric Webster <ericwebsterm... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello, I recently upgraded from bsd 6.4 to bsd8.0release ( new install ) and I am having issues getting mywifitowork. Before the upgrade it worked perfectly in 6.4.
> I am a bit confused as I have read different things about this. The handbookhttp://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html#NE...
> under basic settings says check to see if your device supports host based ap mode by doing
>
> ifconfig wlan0 list caps
>
> # ifconfig wlan0 list caps
> drivercaps=2985cd01<STA,IBSS,HOSTAP,AHDEMO,SHSLOT,SHPREAMBLE,MONITOR,MBSS,WPA1,WPA2,WDS,BGSCAN>
>
> Then it says the wireless device can now be put into AP mode by doing:
>
> ifconfig wlan0 ssid freebsdap mode 11g mediaopt hostap inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> Which returns:
> ifconfig: inet: bad value
>
> I read some place that you need to put inet before ssid so I tried it with the following:
>
> # ifconfig wlan0 inet 10.0.0.1/24 ssid gangsta wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey apasswordhere mode 11g mediaopt hostap
>
> Which returns:
> ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (media): Device not configured
>
> If I try to configure it like it was in 6.4 I get another error:
>
> ifconfig wlan0 ssid gangsta channel 8 wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey apasswordhere mode 11g mediaopt hostap 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> Which returns:
> ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (media): Device not configured
>
> I know wep is not secure, I am just trying to get it working.
>
> At start of the guide it tells you to configure the following in /boot/loader.conf which I did.
>
> /boot/loader.conf
>
> if_ral_load="YES"
> wlan_load="YES"
> wlan_scan_ap_load="YES"
> wlan_scan_sta_load="YES"
> wlan_wep_load="YES"
> wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
> wlan_Tkip_load="YES"
>
> When I run kldstat I see the if_ral is loaded. I don't know if its supposed to show the other modules.
>
> kldstat
>
> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>  1    9 0xc0400000 b22548   kernel
>  2    1 0xc0f23000 13e4c    if_ral.ko
>  3    1 0xc357b000 35000    ipl.ko
>
> Here is rc.conf
>
> check_quotas="NO"
> gateway_enable="YES"
> hostname="router.foo.bar"
> ibcs2_enable="NO"
> ifconfig_sk0="DHCP"
> ifconfig_xl0="inet 192.168.0.1  netmask 255.255.255.0"
> wlans_ral0="wlan0"
> ifconfig_wlan0="inet 10.0.0.1/24 ssid gangsta wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey apasswordhere mode 11g mediaopt hostap"
> ipfilter_enable="YES"
> ipfilter_rules="/etc/ipf.rules"
> ipmon_enable="YES"
> ipmon_flags="-Ds"
> ipnat_enable="YES"
> ipnat_rules="/etc/ipnat.rules"
>
> Here is ifconfig -a
>
> xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>     options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>     ether 00:60:97:7f:3e:6c
>     inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>     media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>     status: active
> sk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>     options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
>     ether 00:0c:41:e4:7e:83
>     inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast 255.255.255.255
>     media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>     status: active
> ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>     ether 00:14:bf:78:a2:a7
>     media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
>     status: associated
> plip0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>     options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
>     inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>     ether 00:14:bf:78:a2:a7
>     media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>     status: no carrier
>     ssid gangsta channel 11 (2462 Mhz 11g)
>     country US authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit
>     txpower 0 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
>     roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS bintval 0
>
> netstat -rn
>
> Routing tables
>
> Internet:
> Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif Expire
> default            x.x.x.x            UGS         0       35    sk0
> x.x.x.x/21         link#2             U           0        0    sk0
> x.x.x.x            link#2             UHS         0        0    lo0
> 127.0.0.1          link#5             UH          0       32    lo0
> 192.168.0.0/24     link#1             U           1      568    xl0
> 192.168.0.1        link#1             UHS         0        0    lo0
>
> Many thanks in advance!!
>
> Eric
>
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