From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Mar 31 12:41:49 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBD10D23E34 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2017 12:41:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivares14031@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vk0-x22f.google.com (mail-vk0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c05::22f]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 889CD9C8 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2017 12:41:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivares14031@gmail.com) Received: by mail-vk0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id s68so89155288vke.3 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2017 05:41:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=Zo+wOnHkJnLaU0lJJFdBlxNPTap/M/iBN2xiLKhzj5c=; b=ehNhI1sGcFie88xw/BqZP9agIXFar9Cs8BJQIzVzVu6DuUCZuzt1CAfsPZZNNKFSPU cStrx+tAeWqOrm9B0ELbiTWE/+UJfJR7FMQpzfaMotsZnW+pgO7FCQb1pHwPAQBgD48x Wx1F8+zomg+aK4tB1xwAlKdiOMiP+8aCeysUf3ZsxqTlljvS3/QVqGGNbsOxC6iQWT7E vI8N4Q5b4LjBT/o0zgoOqnAz1gUe5XgpQPw2+6rvVkC2wPlkCa356p3hOmmkWycyuTgq v0MMbPtt6R9IZMF6AAxYV7v0U6cUibaghU1MgyBSDaP7kvDP3fos5yV55beZXb1p4QUh kUzA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=Zo+wOnHkJnLaU0lJJFdBlxNPTap/M/iBN2xiLKhzj5c=; b=r3xs9wkm+7RTfGqW++Ey5Q18zP2/r+05GroPwwH/NcWbATxkqS//g5XGP1SM/5xqFW Ca0ev/Q0t/nwJQUgARZa+jvsGK9wUKev8yzwcqN9UkvAGBQHY3u9RGowgx9KnyyQ61RH KjLUkAHu6myodD4VF6q0MrUCUSiQy/cWlUlCgjGXvHtyIDtYeuCa4tAGVxOlihz63tew bUc7ayD7wILNq9XbPJQm5xQV6nufNL+BaU2wYXBd8SuSE32mFxExdwbMQfKy4vfz1Si+ RDTHXLv86YONmWxGLPUtWvg5rLahvBcR/AlzYx0DmJsw4vbzft2Bl67+PwYz0mTxiRjq Z7hw== X-Gm-Message-State: AFeK/H1epz9L5N/OJ+zaznzmzq9ahAXpmaxmM26crwuEJEXmz8VwXCdivuCUgRKU/ecZ8Dv2eQbCiJgi15PK7A== X-Received: by 10.159.35.143 with SMTP id 15mr1434082uao.150.1490964108365; Fri, 31 Mar 2017 05:41:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.176.5.38 with HTTP; Fri, 31 Mar 2017 05:41:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Antonio Olivares Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 07:41:48 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: wireless problem ath0 wlan0, no carrier To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 12:41:49 -0000 Dear freebsd users, I have an acer aspire 1 running freebsd and I was able to connect with wireless when I ran freebsd 9 on it. Now running freebsd 11 and I get no carrier problems. I used to connect by following wblock's advice given in : http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/wireless.html I have followed steps carefully and have added to /etc/rc.conf root@aceraspire:~ # cat /etc/rc.conf | grep 'wlan0' wlans_ath0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP" root@aceraspire:~ # cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf network={ ssid="GrullaHS" psk="password_goes_here" } root@aceraspire:~ # root@aceraspire:~ # ifconfig wlan0 list scan SSID/MESH ID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS GrullaHS 00:3a:99:24:6c:30 5 54M -78:-96 100 EPS WME GrullaHS 00:3a:99:34:79:f0 5 54M -86:-96 100 EPS WME GrullaHS 00:3a:99:34:04:50 5 54M -85:-96 100 EPS WME GrullaHS 00:3a:99:28:36:90 5 54M -91:-96 100 EPS WME GrullaHS 00:3a:99:34:7c:30 5 54M -89:-96 100 EPS WME root@aceraspire:~ # ale0: link state changed to UP ath0: ath_legacy_rx_tasklet: sc_inreset_cnt > 0; skipping ath0: ath_legacy_rx_tasklet: sc_inreset_cnt > 0; skipping wlan0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:24:2c:73:85:e7 nd6 options=29 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) status: no carrier ssid "" channel 12 (2467 MHz 11g) regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy MIXED deftxkey UNDEF txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS wme burst roaming MANUAL bintval 0 groups: wlan How can I troubleshoot so I can get the wireless on this machine going? It used to connect without problems. Now I am using wired connection. Please advice me. I tried to add networkmgr by using pkg, but it is not available root@aceraspire:~ # pkg install networkmgr Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up-to-date. All repositories are up-to-date. pkg: No packages available to install matching 'networkmgr' have been found in the repositories root@aceraspire:~ # Thanks, Antonio root@aceraspire:~ # uname -a FreeBSD aceraspire 11.0-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p8 #0: Wed Feb 22 06:06:13 UTC 2017 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386