From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 20 19:34:28 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 AE3AA16A4DD for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:34:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2152B43D49 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:34:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k6KJYOHF015488; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:34:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:34:04 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <54db43990607201230h7841d667s8d56a913ae1ecf27@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54db43990607201230h7841d667s8d56a913ae1ecf27@mail.gmail.com> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607201534.04670.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.3, clamav-milter version 0.88.3 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Bob Johnson , Marwan Sultan 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 19:34:28 -0000 On Thursday 20 July 2006 15:30, Bob Johnson wrote: > On 7/20/06, 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 > > 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 You hint at this below, but ndiscvt should no longer be run by the user. > 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." Unfortunately, the developer of the ndis drive has specifically stated that USB is not (yet) supported. > 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. JN