From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 1 18:31:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD11E16A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:31:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp014.mail.yahoo.com (smtp014.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 900EE43D45 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:31:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lloyd545220-trucker@yahoo.com) Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.59.3.192?) (wyoming?antelope@205.241.228.70 with plain) by smtp014.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Nov 2004 18:31:19 -0000 Message-ID: <418680F1.2030405@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 11:31:13 -0700 From: Lloyd Hayes User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dick Davies References: <41853E85.7010403@yahoo.com> <20041101094142.GA4930@lb.tenfour> In-Reply-To: <20041101094142.GA4930@lb.tenfour> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WiFi 802.11b or g setup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 18:31:19 -0000 Somehow or someway, my approach to this problem is completely wrong. Using the various network connection programs, all respond that there is no network connector attached. I put FBSD (for a day) on this box a couple of months ago. The light on the PCMCIA WiFi card did come on then. (Linksys card.) But a network scan still said that there was no network connector attached or present. This time, the light doesn't even come on. I'm beginning to think that the SSH program is a problem source. But I'm am also sure that I am approaching this wrong and need some direction. (I've tried all of the options in the sysinstall network menu.) (100% of my Internet connection is through WiFi services. I travel all year long. When I sometimes go home to Wyoming, my cell phone normally doesn't work there. No phone lines. A wind generator and a gas generator for electricity. Snow gets over 10 feet deep during a normal winter. Travel in the winter is by snowmobile. Antelope, moose, and elk get in my way during the day and wake me up in the night. Usually I don't want to leave there...) Lloyd Hayes Email: lloyd545220-trucker@yahoo.com URL: http://TalkingStaff.bravehost.com E-FAX Number: (208) 248-6590 Dick Davies wrote: >* Lloyd Hayes [1057 19:57]: > > >>I have several wifi modems. I've read where the Linksys 802.11b seems >>the most compatable with UNIX type systems. I bought this one recently. >>I also have the US Robodics 802.11g, Netware 802.11b, and a generic >>wavelan 802.11b PCMCIA card. I have yet to get any of these to work >>under a UNIX type system. Obviously there is something here that I don't >>understand. >> >>Anyone have some step-by-step instuctions for this idiot? >> >> > >What have you tried, and what didn't work? > > >