Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:30:13 -0400 From: "Bob Johnson" <fbsdlists@gmail.com> To: "Marwan Sultan" <dead_line@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO wireless please. Message-ID: <54db43990607201230h7841d667s8d56a913ae1ecf27@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY20-F92E8B7F9ACF50C2B9C0E79A610@phx.gbl> References: <BAY20-F92E8B7F9ACF50C2B9C0E79A610@phx.gbl>
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On 7/20/06, Marwan Sultan <dead_line@hotmail.com> 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 > ugen is the generic usb device driver that gets attached if a specific driver for the device is not available. I don't think you will be able to do anything useful with it (it seems to be intended more for developers to use while experimenting with a device). There is a tool called ndiscvt that will take a Windows NDIS device driver and wrap it up in an interface that allows it to be used as a FreeBSD driver. Most likely, you will need to do that to get your interface working. Instructions are in section 27.3.3.6.3 of the FreeBSD Handbook (buried in one of the sections someone has already mentioned: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html In 6.1 there is a script called ndisgen that automates the process described in the Handbook. You will probably find it much easier to read its man page and use it instead of using ndiscvt directly. The instructions amount to "become root, run ndisgen, do what it says." Once you have successfully built and loaded the NDIS driver, it will by default show up as ndis0 when you do an ifconfig. Once that happens, the rest should be easy. - Bob
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