Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:12:40 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO wireless please. Message-ID: <44BFB988.10200@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <44BFB816.6060509@u.washington.edu> References: <BAY20-F92E8B7F9ACF50C2B9C0E79A610@phx.gbl> <44BFB816.6060509@u.washington.edu>
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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
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