From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 20 19:20:55 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B5E2EE57 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:20:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6811F1507 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:20:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WGZAv-0002Xg-TS for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 20:20:49 +0100 Received: from cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginm.net ([86.21.186.149]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 20:20:49 +0100 Received: from walterhurry by cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginm.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 20:20:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Walter Hurry Subject: Re: Trying to set up wireless networking Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:20:23 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginm.net User-Agent: XPN/1.2.6 (Street Spirit ; Linux) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:20:55 -0000 Waitman Gobble wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> This is a fresh installation of 10.0-RELEASE (amd64). >> >> Despite following the relevant section in the handbook, I can't seem to >> get wireless networking (at home) set up properly. >> >> The router is on 192.168.1.1, using WEP (yes, I know) and I am trying to >> give FreeBSD a fixed IP address of 192.168.1.3. >> >> Here is the output of ifconfig wlan0: >> >> wlan0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 >> ether 0c:ee:e6:80:ed:52 >> inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 >> inet6 fe80::eee:e6ff:fe80:ed52%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 >> nd6 options=29 >> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet MCS mode 11ng >> status: associated >> ssid daddysnetwork channel 7 (2442 MHz 11g ht/20) bssid >> 00:24:01:c6:d7:c4 >> regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 >> wepkey 1:104-bit txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS >> ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 4 shortgi wme burst >> >> But when I try, for example, to ping 8.8.8.8 (Google's public DNS), all >> packets are lost. >> >> What am I doing wrong? What other information should I provide? >> > > > hi, did you try: >> route add default 192.168.1.1 > Thanks for the reply. It gives the response: add net default: gateway 192.168.1.1 fib 0: route already in table