HOWTO wireless please.

[Garrett Cooper]

Garrett Cooper wrote:
> 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
Here are some good relevant comments about your chipset: 
<http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-27794.html>, and 
you should refer to this page 
(<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html> 
: Chapter 27.3) instead of the chapter mentioned in the bsdforums thread 
I gave earlier.
-Garrett