From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 16 07:43:15 2005 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 B802A16A41F for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:43:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Received: from vs2.bgnett.no (vs02.bgnett.no [194.54.96.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0860C43D45 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:43:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Received: from amidala.datadok.no (skapet.datadok.no [194.54.107.19]) by vs2.bgnett.no (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id jAG7grpM037396 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:42:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <437A524F.303@SAFe-mail.net> From: peter@bgnett.no (Peter N. M. Hansteen) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:42:29 +0100 In-Reply-To: <437A524F.303@SAFe-mail.net> (robert wilson's message of "Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:25:35 -0500") Message-ID: <861x1hca3e.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.17 (Jumbo Shrimp, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-bgnett.no-virusscanner: Found to be clean X-bgnett.no-SpamScore: ssss X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ral(4) not working on 6.0 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: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:43:15 -0000 robert wilson writes: > i installed 6.0 on my laptop and everything seems to work great except > for the wireless adapter... > when i do "ifconfig ral0" it says "status: no carrier"... assuming you have a wireless access point within range, configuring wireless interfaces usually takes a few more parameters such as channel, network name and so forth. in a network I visit frequently, it takes two ifconfig commands (my ath0 would be ral0 in your case): # ifconfig ath0 media autoselect nwid kakemonster nwkey 0x1deadbeef5 after up to a couple of seconds of blinkenlights 'ifconfig ath0' showa "status: associated", and finally # dhclient ath0 should get you an IP address, again assuming a DHCP server is within reach. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"