wireless networking
Bruce Mackay
brucem128 at comcast.net
Mon Nov 24 03:26:23 PST 2003
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 01:51:39 -0500
William O'Higgins <william.ohiggins at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> After much effort I found a wireless PCMCIA card that is supported by
> FreeBSD. Now I have to get connected to a wireless network, and I need
> some help.
>
> I have read man wi, and the Handbook, but I'm still missing something.
>
> When I stick in the card in it is recognized and here is the output of
> ifconfig:
>
<snip>
> I enter the following to connect with the unencrypted network with the
> SSID "kieran", which is not broadcasting its SSID:
>
> sudo ifconfig wi0 ssid kieran
>
> I still cannot ping either by ip or dns. Here is the output of
> ifconfig:
>
<snip>
> As near as I can tell, I don't know enough about networking FreeBSD, and
> it is that ignorance that is the problem. Any suggestions?
>
> I am including the output of dmesg, in case that's useful.
> --
>
> yours,
>
> William
>
I'm no networking guru but I had similar issues trying to get my network up and running. I ran "route add default 192.168.1.1" at the command prompt which started to let me ping my router. I guess in your case you probably need 192.168.100.1. You may have already done this though.
Another thing I found that was to ping names (yahoo.com) I had to set my /etc/resolv.conf with
search <your domain>
nameserver <put in your ips dns address>
I don't know if this will be of any help to you but maybe...
Bruce
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