Trying to use TP-LINK TL-WN7200ND as network connection.

Thomas Mueller mueller6724 at bellsouth.net
Fri Nov 22 10:11:20 UTC 2013


On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Edwin L. Culp W. wrote:
        
> I have tried tu get the above usb adapter on several versions of freebsd.
> I am unable to get it to work.  Only the connection to USB is seen.

> run0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>        ether 64:66:b3:0e:42:33
>        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>        status: no carrier

> It has no carrier.

> I must be missing something very basic that I haven't found after two days.

and Warren Block responded:

> This short setup article is for FreeBSD 9 and later:
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/wireless.html

Is there no pushbutton event needed?

User pushes a button on wireless adapter, physical or virtual/software, and that requires the wireless client to push the button, physical or virtual/software, within two minutes.

An alternative to the pushbutton is the PIN.        

Tom



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