From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 24 03:26:23 2003 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 78AE816A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 03:26:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9602743FDD for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 03:26:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brucem128@comcast.net) Received: from Archaon.limstn01.de.comcast.net (pcp01489745pcs.limstn01.de.comcast.net[68.82.193.245](misconfigured sender)) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id <2003112411262101400oqjkse>; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:26:22 +0000 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 06:26:09 -0500 From: Bruce Mackay To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, william.ohiggins@utoronto.ca Message-Id: <20031124062609.7f3ccdb7.brucem128@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20031124065139.GA95655@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> References: <20031124065139.GA95655@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: wireless networking 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, 24 Nov 2003 11:26:23 -0000 On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 01:51:39 -0500 William O'Higgins wrote: > After much effort I found a wireless PCMCIA card that is supported by > FreeBSD. Now I have to get connected to a wireless network, and I need > some help. > > I have read man wi, and the Handbook, but I'm still missing something. > > When I stick in the card in it is recognized and here is the output of > ifconfig: > > I enter the following to connect with the unencrypted network with the > SSID "kieran", which is not broadcasting its SSID: > > sudo ifconfig wi0 ssid kieran > > I still cannot ping either by ip or dns. Here is the output of > ifconfig: > > As near as I can tell, I don't know enough about networking FreeBSD, and > it is that ignorance that is the problem. Any suggestions? > > I am including the output of dmesg, in case that's useful. > -- > > yours, > > William > I'm no networking guru but I had similar issues trying to get my network up and running. I ran "route add default 192.168.1.1" at the command prompt which started to let me ping my router. I guess in your case you probably need 192.168.100.1. You may have already done this though. Another thing I found that was to ping names (yahoo.com) I had to set my /etc/resolv.conf with search nameserver I don't know if this will be of any help to you but maybe... Bruce