Couldn't connect to wireless networking

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Sat Jun 25 04:32:52 UTC 2011


Hi!

You've not really posted enough information.

* Has the system created a wlan0 interface?
* is wpa_supplicant running on the wlan0 or ath0 interface? (the
rc.conf script looks right, but I've not tried it myself to verify.)

Thanks,


Adrian

2011/6/25 纵横天下 <zhtx10 at gmail.com>:
> Hi, all.
>
> Last week, I moved from Fedora to FreeBSD.
> Then, I try to connect to wireless networking (wifi).
> I did some things like handbook, but it showed me:
> ---------
> # /etc/rc.d/netif start
> Starting wpa_supplicant.
> ioctl [SIOCG80211, op98, len 32]: Invalid argument
> ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=5, eloop_data=0x800e0b1c0
> user_data=0x800e070f0 handler =0x421840
> /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant: WARNING: failed to start wpa_supplicant
> ifconfig: create: bad value
> Starting Network: lo0 ath0
> lo: .....
> ath0: ....
>   status: no carrier
> ---------
>
> I don't know what i did wrong.
> This is my rc.conf:
> ---------
> hostname="laptop.mike"
>
> wlans_ath0="wlan0"
> ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP"
> ---------
>
> This is my wpa_supplicant.conf:
> ---------
> network {
>    ssid="WEB"
>    psk="12345678"
> }
> ---------
>
> btw. how to enable snd_driver when FreeBSD starts?
>
> Thank you very much!
> Mike
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