From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 28 18:51:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B516106564A for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:51:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dfunk6@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao106.cox.net (eastrmmtao106.cox.net [68.230.240.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF4528FC1F for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:50:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao106.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.00.01.00 201-2244-105-20090324) with ESMTP id <20100228185100.FEEN1916.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:51:00 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([68.0.79.23]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id nWqy1d0040WARwL02Wqy0c; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:50:58 -0500 X-VR-Score: 0.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=eB45exa5s5AhTaO7pHhA6OPbhzilKlxGV7deooRAVXM= c=1 sm=1 a=xxHbGvPHv4NDIGoarCYyzQ==:17 a=FiuD1RXlcrB2WaEXE1EA:9 a=CW8x11JAs7UbkoNDKwfl50KtzCkA:4 a=xxHbGvPHv4NDIGoarCYyzQ==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Message-ID: <4B8ABB16.6020509@cox.net> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:51:02 -0600 From: Derek Funk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 100228-0, 02/28/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Subject: wireless setup 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: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:51:00 -0000 I am trying to setup a wireless nic on a machine I just installed pcbsd 8.0 on. Its not going well. output from ifconfig -a is: re0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=389b ether 00:1e:33:99:a1:a3 inet6 fe80::21e:33ff:fe99:a1a3%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active ath0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:1e:33:99:a1:a3 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g status: associated pflog0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 33200 pfsync0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1460 syncpeer: 224.0.0.240 maxupd: 128 lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 lagg0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:1e:33:99:a1:a3 inet6 fe80::21e:33ff:fe99:a1a3%lagg0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6 inet 10.254.239.136 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.254.239.255 media: Ethernet autoselect status: active laggproto failover laggport: wlan0 flags=0<> laggport: re0 flags=5 wlan0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:1e:33:99:a1:a3 inet6 fe80::21e:33ff:fe99:a1a3%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) status: no carrier ssid "" channel 12 (2467 Mhz 11g) regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme burst roaming MANUAL bintval 0 lo1: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3 inet 10.1.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 and my rc.conf is:(with some unrelated info omitted) background_dhclient="YES" # Enable the pcbsd startup / shutdown scripts pcbsdinit_enable="YES" # Denyhosts Startup denyhosts_enable="YES" # Enable the firewall pf_rules="/etc/pf.conf" pf_enable="YES" pf_flags="" # Enable ipfw and open it by default since we have PF firewall_enable="YES" firewall_type="open" # Enable IPV6 support ipv6_enable="YES" # Auto-Enabled NICs from pc-sysinstall ifconfig_re0="up" ifconfig_ath0="`ifconfig re0 ether`" ifconfig_ath0="ether ${ifconfig_ath0##*ether }" wlans_ath0="wlan0" cloned_interfaces="lagg0" ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto failover laggport re0 laggport wlan0 DHCP" hostname="pcbsd-6415" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA" I have looked in the handbook and searched the net and tried what I found and still no go. I am trying to connect to open access points around me that a windows machine has no problem using. Any help is appreciated. Derek