From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 13 05:17:47 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E0A516A4CE for ; Fri, 13 May 2005 05:17:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.distalzou.net (203.141.139.231.user.ad.il24.net [203.141.139.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F5E43D88 for ; Fri, 13 May 2005 05:17:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from devin@spamcop.net) Received: from plexi.pun-pun.prv ([192.168.7.29] helo=plexi) by mail.distalzou.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.51 (FreeBSD)) id 1DWSYR-00076z-IK; Fri, 13 May 2005 14:17:43 +0900 Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 14:17:40 +0900 (JST) From: Tod McQuillin X-X-Sender: devin@plexi.pun-pun.prv To: Kirk Strauser In-Reply-To: <200505122236.14490.kirk@strauser.com> Message-ID: <20050513141645.M8926@plexi.pun-pun.prv> References: <200505122236.14490.kirk@strauser.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wi0 is always status: no carrier X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 05:17:47 -0000 On Thu, 12 May 2005, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I've finally coerced FreeBSD 5.4 to see my PCMCIA WLAN card (with many > thanks to Warner), but it always reports "status: no carrier". I'm > attempting to connect to an open WAP that broadcasts it's SSID, so my > understanding is that it should be as simple as "ifconfig wi0 ad.dr.es.s > netmask 255.255.255.0" or "dhclient wi0", but neither of those work. Be sure to set the ssid: ifconfig wi0 ssid whatever -- Tod McQuillin