From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 25 04:19:11 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 04335ADE for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 04:19:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-x230.google.com (mail-wi0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 861CBC68 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 04:19:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f176.google.com with SMTP id n3so2589275wiv.15 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:19:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=F2twsq6wQPPVNM7SSlMj/9YZ9Qfi5NZHcA2PfmuMoYE=; b=PbH8F7n3lXG2CxhqFy6DQZ9Kw+vXdutvbrc9eBDKVTDBUy4PJCTzsCZHYpi7U5qnVS v3OI0mxh+Muq9YHUCaKqRMp1Ssqg6iNFFOg/wt7mjGm/djSjBuLim8N23t9gzPQ68CK6 YAoQAbEMSV7icpVfYfTFmIzKCBYwi6bXkUML60/hfWW/qPV4cB2AhlD0Yv4Ee8oPy8mV 5Us+llpI9M7E8v/pu4ZGXWNeIiOqUMHk+LuLbgGdEXNX53uJRw61JR9LlSXGvvttYAPa 5mx4NLxND/dwaEuvG/6kXKZNolH15o39GsDEf2sOy3srS0CVHDBKwKBSwmZ0pGlOloXD FGRQ== X-Received: by 10.194.209.180 with SMTP id mn20mr9053398wjc.49.1414210748745; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:19:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([41.138.87.45]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id pc8sm7601000wjb.36.2014.10.24.21.19.05 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:19:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Anthony Simm X-Google-Original-From: Anthony Simm Message-ID: <544B240B.8000309@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 06:16:11 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block , Anthony Simm Subject: Re: wireless networking - halfway solved References: <544A13D7.7000202@gmail.com> <544A539F.8080103@gmail.com> <544A7A19.4080405@gmail.com> <544A9365.4060508@gmail.com> <544AA91A.40700@gmail.com> <544AB774.5000109@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ian Smith , Antonio Olivares , FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 04:19:11 -0000 On 10/25/2014 02:15 AM, Warren Block wrote: > 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 metric 0 mtu 2290 >> ether 00:0c:f1:5e:4c:58 >> nd6 options=29 >> 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. > Yes, exactly. I had no idea. Two sentences like that in the Handbook could bring dumbos like me on the right track, maybe. Sorry if such a hint is already there and I didn't get it; that would underline my concern. :-) Regards, Anthony -- mobile +250 78 8778 161 B.P.155 Gisenyi Rwanda "Artificial intelligence will never match natural stupidity"