troubling configuring wireless nic

[Bahman M.]

Terrence Wilson wrote:
> This is my first time experimenting with FreeBSD and UNIX-based systems 
> in general. I am trying to configure a wireless nic on my laptop, which 
> is a windows-free bsd dual boot system. 
> 
> At home, I can access the internet in Windows through a router which 
> also connects my destop (a windows xp machine) to my internet cable 
> connection. When in FreeBSD, I run ifconfig and it indicates that the 
> nic is running and gives its inet address, one which is different from 
> the ip address given in windows. When I ping the address given by 
> ifconfig, it shows a connection. When I ping the the gateway given for 
> the windows machines (the ip address of the router) I get nothing in 
> FreedBSD. 
> 
> So, I edited the /etc/hosts file. I entered the windows ip address for 
> the router into the /etc/hosts file as the local host. Then I edited 
> /etc/rc.config file to assign the ip address given in windows to the 
> inet address of the nic. When I save the files and reboot, I get this 
> message which repeats itself several times:
> "login : Sep 4 11:24:49 sm--mta[561]: NOQUEUE : SYSERR(root): 
> opendaemonsocket: daemon0: cannot bind: can't assign requested address
> Sep 4 11:29:37 sm-mta[561]: daemon Daemon0: problem creating SMTP 
> socket"
> 
That's done inside /etc/rc.conf:
  defaultrouter="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
  hostname="YOUR_HOST_NAME"
  ifconfig_vr0="inet yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy  netmask 255.255.255.0"

Note: vr0 is the NIC name on my machine. Replace it with your own.

To determine the name servers that you use, edit /etc/resolv.conf:
  nameserver zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz

> After this message flashes at boot up, I login as root and try to check 
> the etc/rc.config file but the system responds: "Permission denied".
> when I run vi on  /etc/config, it opens as a blank file.
> 
Obvious, as there is no /etc/config; you should edit /etc/rc.conf instead.

Bahman