Trying to set up wireless networking

[Walter Hurry]

Waitman Gobble wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Walter Hurry <walterhurry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is a fresh installation of 10.0-RELEASE (amd64).
>>
>> Despite following the relevant section in the handbook, I can't seem to
>> get wireless networking (at home) set up properly.
>>
>> The router is on 192.168.1.1, using WEP (yes, I know) and I am trying to
>> give FreeBSD a fixed IP address of 192.168.1.3.
>>
>> Here is the output of ifconfig wlan0:
>>
>> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>>         ether 0c:ee:e6:80:ed:52
>>         inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>>         inet6 fe80::eee:e6ff:fe80:ed52%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet MCS mode 11ng
>>         status: associated
>>         ssid daddysnetwork channel 7 (2442 MHz 11g ht/20) bssid
>> 00:24:01:c6:d7:c4
>>         regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1
>>         wepkey 1:104-bit txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS
>>         ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 4 shortgi wme burst
>>
>> But when I try, for example, to ping 8.8.8.8 (Google's public DNS), all
>> packets are lost.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong? What other information should I provide?
>>
>
>
> hi, did you try:
>> route add default 192.168.1.1
>
Thanks for the reply. It gives the response:

add net default: gateway 192.168.1.1 fib 0: route already in table