From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 20 17:12:42 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 4242A16A4E1 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:12:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout1.cac.washington.edu (mxout1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A59F743D4C for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:12:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout1.cac.washington.edu (8.13.6+UW06.06/8.13.6+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k6KHCfTr010251 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:12:41 -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 k6KHCeBm004117 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:12:41 -0700 Message-ID: <44BFB988.10200@u.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:12:40 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <44BFB816.6060509@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <44BFB816.6060509@u.washington.edu> 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: 2006.7.20.95433 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __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 17:12:42 -0000 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 >> 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 Here are some good relevant comments about your chipset: , and you should refer to this page ( : Chapter 27.3) instead of the chapter mentioned in the bsdforums thread I gave earlier. -Garrett