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Date:      Sun, 25 Dec 2005 11:10:51 +0100
From:      Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de>
To:        Yuan Jue <yuanjue02@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wireless NIC in FreeBSD 6.0 ?
Message-ID:  <20051225111051.06a02712@TP51.local>
In-Reply-To: <200512251530.21898.yuanjue02@gmail.com>
References:  <200512251530.21898.yuanjue02@gmail.com>

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Yuan Jue <yuanjue02@gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anybody success to use wireless NIC in FreeBSD6.0 in HP NC6000?
> Back to FreeBSD 5.4, my wireless card just works, but not in FreeBSD
> 6.0.
>=20
> I use the following steps to try to use my wireless card:
> 1.change to root, then "kldload if_ath"
> after this, I can use "kldstat" to see this:
> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>  1    9 0xc0400000 328db0   kernel
>  2    1 0xc0729000 bc40     kqemu.ko
>  3   16 0xc0735000 5683c    acpi.ko
>  6    1 0xc296a000 e000     if_ath.ko
>  7    1 0xc2978000 3000     ath_rate.ko
>  8    1 0xc297b000 24000    ath_hal.ko
> and use "ifconfig" to see this:
> bge0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         options=3D1a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
>         inet 166.111.208.143 netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast
> 166.111.209.255 ether 00:0d:9d:90:e0:68
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>         status: active
> lo0: flags=3D8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> ath0: flags=3D8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         ether 00:11:85:1b:21:79
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
>         status: no carrier
>         ssid "" channel 1
>         authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 protmode CTS
>=20
> 2.I use DHCP to get my IP address. "dhclient ath0"
> the response is this:
> DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPACK from 166.111.208.1
> bound to 166.111.208.137 -- renewal in 3600 seconds.
> and use "ifconfig" can see:
> ath0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 166.111.208.137 netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast
> 166.111.209.255 ether 00:11:85:1b:21:79
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/36Mbps)
>         status: associated
>         ssid A314b channel 11 bssid 00:09:5b:d1:fa:c4
>         authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 30 protmode CTS bintval 100
>=20
> it seems that the wireless NIC should be working now, right?
> but when i try to ping some IP which definitely should be connected
> from the IP address I have got, like :
> ping 166.111.8.28 (this is the DNS server)
> the result is this:
> PING 166.111.8.28 (166.111.8.28): 56 data bytes
> ping: send to: No route to host
> ping: send to: No route to host
> ping: send to: No route to host
> ping: send to: No route to host
> ping: send to: No route to host
> ping: send to: No route to host
> ping: send to: No route to host
> ping: send to: No route to host
> ^C
> --- 166.111.8.28 ping statistics ---
> 17 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
>=20

What does netstat -r say?

Fabian
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