From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 10 16:14:05 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C84E3777 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:14:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BE721B28 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:14:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uwx1o-0003Ct-0N for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:14:04 +0200 Received: from cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginmedia.com ([86.21.186.149]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:14:04 +0200 Received: from walterhurry by cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:14:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Walter Hurry Subject: Wireless Networking Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:13:44 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 16 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginmedia.com User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:14:05 -0000 9.1-RELEASE-p4 on amd64. This is a laptop with an Atheros 9280 wireless chip in a domestic setting with a single router and a cable "modem". I have never had to use wireless before, but am now in another room. I have followed the handbook, and it seems to be working well. One question though: 'ifconfig -a' shows *two* entries apparently relating to wireless: ath0 and wlan0. The wlan0 one shows the IP address (fixed, not DHCP), netmask, ssid and so forth, but the ath0 entry shows only: ath0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 0c:ee:e6:80:ed:52 nd6 options=29 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g status: associated Is this how it should be?