Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 06:26:09 -0500 From: Bruce Mackay <brucem128@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, william.ohiggins@utoronto.ca Subject: Re: wireless networking Message-ID: <20031124062609.7f3ccdb7.brucem128@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20031124065139.GA95655@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> References: <20031124065139.GA95655@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org>
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On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 01:51:39 -0500 William O'Higgins <william.ohiggins@utoronto.ca> 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: > <snip> > 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: > <snip> > 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 <your domain> nameserver <put in your ips dns address> I don't know if this will be of any help to you but maybe... Bruce
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