From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 1 14:25:06 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E671065673 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 14:25:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reed@reedmedia.net) Received: from c-0500.emailmediator.com (c-0500.emailmediator.com [64.85.162.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AB358FC28 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 14:25:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pool-71-164-190-204.dllstx.fios.verizon.net ([71.164.190.204] helo=reedmedia.net) by c-0500.emailmediator.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rsb7S-0003FP-51; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:25:06 -0500 Received: from reed@reedmedia.net by reedmedia.net with local (mailout 0.17) id 25691-1328106305; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:25:06 -0600 Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 08:25:05 -0600 (CST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" X-X-Sender: reed@t1.m.reedmedia.net To: Adrian Chadd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (NEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iwn Centrino N-1030 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:25:06 -0000 On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Adrian Chadd wrote: > try it with an open AP for now, see if it can exchange data fine? Sorry I am new to wireless on FreeBSD. Still looking at the handbook, but I can't figure out how to get it associated with an open access point. (On a different laptop at same location, when I boot a different BSD it automatically connects to it with no wireless configuration.) When I use ifconfig wlan0 scan it shows it. When I run wpa_supplicant and then wpa_cli and scan and then scan_results it shows it. I can use ifconfig to configure it, but it always says status: no carrier. (When I configure it to use my local access point with the nwkey then it is associated, but dhclient doesn't work.) Any pointers to any docs on how to use ifconfig or other (non X11) tool to automatically scan and connect to a local AP? (The handbook, as far as I see for this, discusses configuring rc.conf so doesn't show me the exact commands lines, and I don't want to yet read all through the rc.d scripts and network.subr.) (By the way, the handbook shows "ifconfig wlan0 up scan" but that outputs nothing in the case where the interface needs to brought up first. Run it again and then it does output the results.) > I'm not really going to be more helpful than that on the intel NICs I'm > afraid :( Any suggestions on a cheap USB wifi adapter to use? (Maybe there is a webpage with suggested hardware to use?)