wireless networking

[Antonio Olivares]

Dear Sir,

I was able to connect using W. Blocks howto:

http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/wireless.html

Hope it helps!

Best Regards,


Antonio

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Anthony Simm
<simm.anthony at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE on an IBM T42 box and have problems to
> connect it's wireless card to the router / to the internet.
>
> I have read this
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-wireless.html
>
> and followed the chapter
>
> 31.3.2. Quick Start
>
> and have done this
>
>> ifconfig | grep -A4 -i wireless
>
>
> which gives
>
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
> status: no carrier
> plip0: flags=8810<POINTTOPOINT, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> lo0: flags=8049<UP, LOOPBACK, RUNNING, MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>
> I added an entry with the correct details to /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
>
>> network={
>>         ssid="myssid"
>>         psk="mypsk"
>> }
>
>
> and added these details to /etc/rc.conf
>
>>
>> wlans_ath0="wlan0"
>> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP"
>
>
>
> Reboot, no wireless connection.
>
> Then I followed the next chapter,
>
> 31.3.3. Basic Setup
> 31.3.3.1. Kernel Configuration
>
> and added the following lines to /boot/loader.conf
>
>> if_ath_load="YES"
>> if_wi_load="YES"
>
>
> (/boot/loader.conf was previously empty but did exist)
>
>
> Reboot, no connection.
>
>
> ifconfig gives entries for em0, ipw0, plip0, and lo0
>
> The one for ipw0 reads:
>
> ipw0: flags=8802<POINTTOPOINT, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
> ether 00:0c:f1:5e:4c:58
> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
> status: no carrier
>
> (Do you need the output for em0, ipw0, and plip0 as well?)
>
> I have read everything on that page all the way down to
>
>> 31.3.8. Troubleshooting
>
>
> but am scratching my head and can't decide what else to do.
>
> I will check the forums but I thought I should mention that I did not find
> an answer in the handbook to this probably frequently occurring setup
> problem.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Anthony
>
>
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