Setting up atheros (168c:001c) wireless NIC in FreeBSD

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 9/23/08, Paul B. Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/22/08, Ashish Shukla ************ ***************
> <wahjava.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've just built and installed recently checked out kernel and world. But
>> this time, wpa_supplicant is able to detect my access point and
>> associate it for a moment. But thats it.
>>
>> ----8<----8<----
>> % ifconfig wlan0
>> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
>> 1500
>>         ether 00:1f:3a:1a:50:b3
>>         inet6 fe80::21f:3aff:fe1a:50b3%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet DS/1Mbps mode 11g
>>         status: associated
>>         ssid 18-B-PARVATIYA channel 6 (2437 Mhz 11g) bssid
>> 00:1e:2a:76:f4:60
>>         regdomain 103 indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON
>>         deftxkey UNDEF txpower 16 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl
>> 300
>>         bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme burst
>>         roaming MANUAL
>> ---->8---->8----
>>
>> Though it shows associated but I'm not able to ping any other nodes on
>
> Why? You got some errors when using ping(1)?
>
> ifconfig output doesnt have inet, netmask and broadcast configured so
> pinging will not work anyway.
>
except if you use only ip6