From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 07:07:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B009016A403 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:07:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from regulus.dfwlp.com (rrcs-64-183-212-244.sw.biz.rr.com [64.183.212.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39DCA43C9E for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:07:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from athena.dfwlp.com (athena.dfwlp.com [192.168.125.83]) (authenticated bits=0) by regulus.dfwlp.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBH776Xm042636 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:07:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) From: Jonathan Horne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:07:05 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <200612170002.11022.freebsd@dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612170107.05883.freebsd@dfwlp.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on regulus.dfwlp.com Subject: Re: i finally got wireless working X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:07:12 -0000 On Sunday 17 December 2006 00:40, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: > Good work Jonathan, > > As usual with fellow FreeBSD users, any information about how you got > past your problem is stuff Unix folks like me love to hear. I actually > save success stories like yours to help me out with wireless issues. > > I can only speak for myself but I'd love to hear how ya did it. thanks! i was quite proud of my efforts myself! its a pretty good feeling to complete a project in an area where i have little expertise (especially when (good) internet docs are few and far between). after all the docs i read, and bad advice i followed, bad decisions i made, it all boiled down to a pretty simple recipe: 1) install net/iwi-firmware 2) add this to loader.conf: # Wireless Network - Intel 2200BG if_iwi_load="YES" wlan_acl_load="YES" wlan_wep_load="YES" wlan_ccmp_load="YES" wlan_tkip_load="YES" wlan_xauth_load="YES" 3) add this to rc.conf: ifconfig_iwi0="DHCP WPA" iwi_enable="YES" iwi_interfaces="iwi0" iwi_mod_iwi0="bss" 4) create and populate /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf: network={ ssid="myssid" psk="mypass" } reboot, rinse, enjoy! one big mistake i made, was building world up to 6.2-RC1. there was one good article about installing freebsd on an ibm t42 (found it on google), but it didnt have any info on getting wireless to auto start. after i had wireless manually up and running initially, i then built world, and updated. next boot, firmware and modules would not load. i had tweaked some other things, so i backed those changes off, and worked round and round until i decided to just do a quick reinstall. this time, i didnt use 6.1-RELEASE, but i did 6.2-RC1. same behavior, and this is when i figured out that the only time it really worked like the web page depicted, was when i was on 6.1-RELEASE. so i tried cvsuping to -p11, and things still worked fine. this is the only laptop i have (thus, my only wireless computer), so when 6.2 comes out, ill be pretty nervous about upgrading until i read that everything i kosher with iwi- support. cheers, jonathan