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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Anthony Simm <simm.anthony@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: wireless networking
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2014, Anthony Simm wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have installed FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE on an IBM T42 box and have problems to 
> connect it's wireless card to the router / to the internet.
>
> I have read this
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-wireless.html
>
> and followed the chapter
>
> 31.3.2. Quick Start
>
> and have done this
>
>> ifconfig | grep -A4 -i wireless
>
> which gives
>
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
> status: no carrier
> plip0: flags=8810<POINTTOPOINT, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> lo0: flags=8049<UP, LOOPBACK, RUNNING, MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384

Hmm.  That should be -B3:
ifconfig | grep -B3 -i wireless

Could you try that again?  (I will correct the Handbook.)