HOWTO wireless please.

[Garrett Cooper]

Marwan Sultan wrote:
> Hello gurus,
>
> Can someone help me setting up my wireless device on my laptop
> im on 6.1R, I tried to do as instructed on handbook, but no luck.
> My laptop suppose to be the client, and i have a netgear wireless 
> modem router up and running.
> How to make the freebsd see the router have the ip, and make the 
> device up?
>
> from dmesg
> ugen0: Broadcom Corp HP Integrated Module
>
> The following is the output of ifconfig -a
> # ifconfig -a
>
> fwe0: 
> flags=108943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> 
> mtu 1500
>        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>        inet6 fe80::603f:2ff:fe6c:4184%fwe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>        inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
>        ether 62:3f:02:6c:41:84
>        ch 1 dma 0
> fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>        inet6 fe80::216:d4ff:fe01:617e%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
>        inet 192.168.0.14 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>        ether 00:16:d4:01:61:7e
>        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>        status: active
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>
> the following is in /etc/rc.conf  (i think there is something wrong)
>
> ifconfig_fwe0="DHCP"
> dhcp_program="/sbin/dhclient"
> ddhcp_flags=""
>
> the following is compiles in the kernel
> wlan
> an
> awi
> ral
> wi
> wlan_wep
> wlan_ccmp
> wlan_tkip
> wl As i have been told that fwe0 is not the wireless device, then how 
> to show it up?
> compiled the kernel to some modifications as i wrote here, but no luck,
> Will kindly someone help me, as im new to wireless and bsd.
>
> Marwan
Marwan,
    fwe0 is your ethernet over IEEE1394 (firewire) connection. According 
to the information above you don't have your wireless interface even 
present, ie ugen0 was not present in the ifconfig output you have listed 
above.
-Garrett