trouble setting up wireless

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On 06/09/13 01:24, Warren Block wrote:
> First, check the easy things: is there a physical switch to enable 
> wireless?  Is it on?
There is no physical switch to enable wireless there.
>
> Please post the output of 'ifconfig -a'. 
root at box0:/root # ifconfig -a
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
         ether 00:24:2c:5e:06:f2
         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
         status: associated
re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
         ether 00:23:8b:b2:e5:1f
         inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
         status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
         options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb
         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
         nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
         ether 00:24:2c:5e:06:f2
         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
         status: no carrier
         ssid "" channel 12 (2467 MHz 11g)
         regdomain 103 indoor ecm authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy OFF
         txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 
bgscanidle 250
         roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme burst roaming MANUAL
         bintval 0