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Date:      Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:15:34 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Anthony Simm <simm.anthony@googlemail.com>
Cc:        Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: wireless networking - halfway solved
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2014, Anthony Simm wrote:

>> If it made a WPA connection, you are set.  The output of 'ifconfig'
>> shows some information on how it connected.
>
> ifconfig now gives
>
> ipw0: flags=8802<POINTTOPOINT, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
> ether 00:0c:f1:5e:4c:58
> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11b
> status: associated

It would be in the section about wlan0.  wlan0 is a virtual device that 
controls the hardware device, ipw0 in this case.



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