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[Vijay Kiran]

Hi Richard,

May be you should start over. I'll try to explain how I configured my
wifi.

1. Switched the Wireless on. (And checked in Windows :P).
	1a. Made sure that I've intel wireless chipset.
2. Added following line to /boot/loader.conf

	if_iwi_load="YES"
3. Installed iwicontrol port
4. Reboot

5. and then the command, which will be just silent
	iwicontrol iwi0 -d /usr/local/share/iwi-firmware -m bss
6. sysinstall - configured iwi0 interface to use DHCP, no IPV6. You can
do it from gnome -> Desktop Menu -> Administration -> Networking ->
selecting iwi0 adapter and in the properties configured it to use DHCP.
6. Start the interfaces
	/etc/rc.d/netif start
Which will check for the DHCP offers.

Also
"dmesg | grep iw" gives me

iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xffdfd000-0xffdfdfff irq 9 at
device 12.0 on pci2
iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:12:f0:0e:da:bf
iwi0: Please load firmware


Finally after configuration

shire# ifconfig iwi0
iwi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::212:f0ff:fe0e:dabf%iwi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
        inet 192.168.2.188 netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast 192.168.3.255
        ether 00:12:f0:0e:da:bf
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/24Mbps)
        status: associated
        ssid foss.in channel 11 bssid 00:0f:cb:a1:cd:ff
        authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 protmode CTS bintval 100

Ofcourse the status is associated because there's a wireless access
point.



Also check these links:
http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-October/101207.html




Regards,
www.VijayKiran.com