Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:09:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Gravisman <gravisman@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting up wlan with vap - wlan0 doesn't appear Message-ID: <24455962.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <24455296.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <24453847.post@talk.nabble.com> <4A5A8773.9020905@freebsd.org> <24455296.post@talk.nabble.com>
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Gravisman wrote: > > > > Sam Leffler-2 wrote: >> >> Gravisman wrote: >>> I just got an iogear usb wireless adapter to add to my machine which >>> previously only ran a wired interface. After poking around I now see >>> that >>> wireless setup works significantly different in CURRENT than it did in >>> previous releases. I haven't found too terribly much on google, but the >>> basic idea seems to be that I have to setup a wlans interface in >>> rc.conf. >>> So, the following is what I added to rc.conf, which is consistent with >>> the >>> examples I've found, including the one in /usr/src/UPDATING. >>> >>> wlans_zyd0="wlan0" >>> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" >>> >>> I see zyd0 interface in ifconfig, but even with these lines added to >>> rc.conf, I'm not getting any wlan0 interface, and I can't list scanned >>> networks on zyd0. Any idea what I'm missing? >>> >> zyd0 is not where you list networks; if you create wlan0 then you want >> >> ifconfig wlan0 list scan >> >> to see the set of ap's found during a scan. >> >> Try showing the output of ifconfig for starters. Since you've enabled >> WPA I'd ask if you've created a wpa_supplicant.conf file for it? w/o >> that you won't get WPA setup. >> >> > > My problem is that wlan0 doesn't show up as an interface. Despite having > added wlans_zyd0="wlan0" to my rc.conf file, my interfaces are as shown > below: > > nassy# ifconfig > msk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 > options=118<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4> > ether 00:13:d4:07:c7:2e > inet 10.0.1.199 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.1.255 > media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex,flag0,flag1>) > status: active > fwe0: flags=8902<BROADCAST,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 > options=8<VLAN_MTU> > ether 02:11:d8:37:35:aa > ch 1 dma -1 > fwip0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 > lladdr 0.11.d8.0.0.37.35.aa.a.2.ff.fe.0.0.0.0 > plip0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384 > options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM> > inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 > inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > zyd0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290 > ether 00:21:79:c2:44:82 > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) > status: no carrier > > As you can see, there is no wlan0. So, what might I be missing to actually > get wlan0 setup? Everything I've found just mentions the rc.conf stuff, > which I've done. > > Thanks for the help, but I've solved my own problem. The key for anyone else who hits this was... ifconfig wlan create wlandev zyd0 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/setting-up-wlan-with-vap---wlan0-doesn%27t-appear-tp24453847p24455962.html Sent from the freebsd-current mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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