Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:54:11 +0530 (IST) From: Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@datasynergy.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM Stinkpad and Wifi Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908310853550.12290@freebsd> In-Reply-To: <20090825194741.756580a7@bobcat.edu> References: <20090825194741.756580a7@bobcat.edu>
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On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, herbert langhans wrote: > Hi Daemons, > I have some troubles to get connected to an open Wifi-Net. > > Its an older IBM Stinkpad 600 and I bought a new PCMCIA-card for it. > Chipset of the card is from Atheros, this is recommended by the FreeBSD > Handbook. > > I boot the Laptop, the drivers seem to be compiled in the generic > Kernel. Booting shows something like: > ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xff9f0000-0xff9fffff irq 17 at device 2.0 on > pci2 > ath0: Ethernet address: 00:11:95:d5:43:62 > ath0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6 > > Good. Then I try: > # ifconfig ath0 up scan > # > (I tried this in a cool caf?, with cool people there and a cool open > access point..) > > Nothing. There should be a list of the available access points. > Is that right? > Something I missed with the setup? > > I tried: > #kldload wlan_wep.ko > #kldload wlan_ccmp.ko > #kldload wlan_tkip.ko > > ..and BSD 7.2, a very recent version, tells me that these files already exist (so the kernel took > already care of it). > > What am I doing wrong?? > All ideas appreciated! > Thanks > herb langhans > Assuming that you know the SSID. # ifconfig ath0 ssid SSID # ifconfig ath0 up # dhclient ath0 What do you observe in this case (ie. dmesg log) ? thanks Saifi.
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