From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 21 20:26:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 2B37816A41F for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:26:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@webtent.net) Received: from esmtp.webtent.net (esmtp.webtent.net [208.38.145.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BFED43D66 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:26:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@webtent.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.webtent.net [127.0.0.1]) by esmtp.webtent.net (WebTent ESMTP Postfix Internet Mail Gateway) with ESMTP id B4F66EBFBD for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:26:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from esmtp.webtent.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (esmtp.webtent.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28968-12-2 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:26:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.60] (webtent.org [70.110.70.42]) by esmtp.webtent.net (WebTent ESMTP Postfix Internet Mail Gateway) with ESMTP id D2D65EBEC1 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:26:31 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Fitzpatrick To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:27:06 -0500 Message-Id: <1132604826.679.12.camel@felipa.webtent.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at webtent.net Subject: Wireless pc card on FreeBSD 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: robert@webtent.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:26:41 -0000 I have my wireless card associating with my access point using the following command from the doc at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD +5.3-RELEASE # ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid WEBTENT # ifconfig ath0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 inet6 fe80::280:c8ff:fe1f:9655%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 ether 00:80:c8:1f:96:55 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps) status: associated ssid WEBTENT channel 6 bssid 00:05:5d:89:c8:78 authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 32 protmode CTS bintval 100 But cannot browse the network at all. I also have a wired connection to the network on the laptop and cannot ping the address assigned to the wireless card unless the wired connection is connected, why would this be? Also, of course, as you can see above, I need to get WEP going, but not sure how to specify the WEP key in ASCII or determine the HEX needed from the ASCII key, can someone suggest how this is done? And I'd like to get it to use DHCP, how would I do this? -- Robert