From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 20 17:06:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 B5A3D16A4DE for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:06:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B5C243D58 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:06:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.6+UW06.06/8.13.6+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k6KH6UCj013462 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:06:30 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [128.208.5.99] (nilakantha.cs.washington.edu [128.208.5.99]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k6KH6UuM002262 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:06:30 -0700 Message-ID: <44BFB816.6060509@u.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:06:30 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296, Antispam-Engine: 2.4.0.264935, Antispam-Data: 2006.7.20.94932 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: HOWTO wireless please. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:06:32 -0000 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 > mtu 1500 > options=8 > 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 mtu 1500 > options=8 > 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 ) > status: active > lo0: flags=8049 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