Wireless, WEP, DHCP, and bcmwl5_sys - not working

Stanley jamesstanley at bluebottle.com
Wed May 23 12:17:32 UTC 2007


Ah, it did post to the mailing list.
I got a failure notice and couldn't find it in the archives.
I'm currently at school, so I'll try using wpa_supplicant as soon as I get home. Thanks.

Quoting Nick Jagger <nckjagger at yahoo.com>:

> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Stanley <jamesstanley at bluebottle.com>
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:36:18 PM
> Subject: Wireless, WEP, DHCP, and bcmwl5_sys - not working
> 
> As the subject suggests, I am having trouble getting online on my
> computer. I have generated a driver with ndisgen and the card
> worked perfectly with ndiswrapper in Debian. I can configure the
> card with ifconfig, but I can't get an IP Address with DHCP, and if
> I assign it manually and ping my router, it says Network
> Unreachable.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> James Stanley
> P.S. I hope this is the right way to ask, I've never posted to a
> mailing list before...
> ---------------------
> 
> Are you using wpa_supplicant?
> If not, try.
> 
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