From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 02:51:19 2004 Return-Path: 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 BE52916A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 02:51:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E1543D1F for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 02:51:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C5A60D7; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:51:18 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 89826-10; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:51:05 -0600 (CST) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D22C60CD; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:51:05 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41AA8EA1.3070203@makeworld.com> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:51:13 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041127) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Davis Doherty References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.0 (20041102) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with WPC11 wirelss card on FreeBSD 4.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 02:51:19 -0000 Davis Doherty wrote: > I just put a fresh install of FreeBSD 4.10 from CD on my Presario 1610 > laptop (ancient!), and I'm trying to get a Linksys WPC11 wireless card > working with my home network. > > The wireless card uses the Prism 2 chipset, and was recognized when I > plugged it in. I did 'wicontrol -n "my network SSID"' and 'wicontrol -p > 1'. I then tried to set up the card via DHCP in /stand/sysinstall, and > failed, so I set the network information manually. However, ifconfig -a > still showed "status: no carrier." So I tried 'wicontrol -r 2432' thinking > that I might need to have the RTS set to agree with my wireless AP, but > still no luck. Except for a brief moment of connectivity, I remain unable > to connect. > > All this took place about 5 feet from the AP, which is not using WEP, so > signal should not be an issue. Is there something I'm missing in my setup > here? > > -Davis > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Your /etc/rc.conf should look have something like this in it: ifconfig_wi0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.xxx ssid xxx wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890abcdef1234567890" -- Best regards, Chris If there isn't a law, there will be.