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On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 16:28 +0000, dhaneshk k wrote:
> Fellow FreeBSDians,
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>   I am trying to configure  my laptop for  wireless connectivity to a broadband connection.
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> these are the steps I followed, I don't know what  I made wrong, please help to fix the issue..
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> 1 ) To  /boot/loader.conf
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> if_wpi_load = "YES"
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> wlan_load = "YES"
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> wlan_amrr_load = "YES"
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> firmware_load = "YES"
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> wpifw_load = "YES"
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> legal.intel_wpi.licence_ack=1
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> save and rebooted the machine
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> and 
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> 2) issued the command  ifconfig wpi0 up scan
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> but nothing is reported for  this command
Howdy Dhanesh

Try; 
ifconfig wpi0 list scan

this should bring up a list of all the wifi spots in your area with
signal strengths and rates.


> 3) then I checked  the out  put  of    ifconfig
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> it showing  wpi0    but  no carriers  for the device
Once you have found the access point you want to access you'll need to
pass more arguments to ifconfig and possibly setup wpa_supplicant.conf

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-wireless.html should
help....


>  
> I am using  FreeBSD-7.2 i386 release.  Wireless card is   Intel Pro/Wireless  3945 . (In  Windows XP  it works from this Windows I am sending this mail via   Wireless  access)  Any help  most welcome.
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> thanks in advance
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> dhanesh

Wpi isn't the most stable wifi for freebsd at the moment, I am having a
few issues with it... It keeps dropping the connection silently unless I
hammer the AP with ping...

Regards

Craig B