Couldn't connect to wireless networking

[Adrian Chadd]

Oh damnit, I missed that.

Yes, it should be wlan0="WPA DHCP".

That should fix it!


Adrian

2011/6/25 Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com>:
> 2011/6/24 Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>:
>> 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?
>>>
>
> I think his main problem is that he is trying to configure ath0
> instead of wlan0.
>
> I see this quite often and felt that, last time I read it, the
> documentation was nit very clear on this.
>
> I might also mention that adding 'snd_hda_load="YES"' to
> /boot/loader.conf will probably take care of the sound issue, assuming
> he has HDA audio like almost all modern system do unless an add-on
> audio card is installed. (Not that this is on-topic for this list.)
> --
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired
> E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com
>