Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:18:28 +0000 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: FW <forkandwait@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with wifi and macbook Message-ID: <4B179074.30404@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <8029763b0912022058y65dc9ff7p64feea88fbd89c3f@mail.gmail.com> References: <8029763b0912022058y65dc9ff7p64feea88fbd89c3f@mail.gmail.com>
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FW wrote: > I have successfully installed freebsd on my macbook (yay!), but I > can't figure out how to make the wifi work. Wired networking works > great. > > I am following the directions here : > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html, > but I have only got up to section 31.3.3.1, since I can't get past the > scanning part. > > My ifconfig output is attached (can't figure out cutting and pasting > in icewm with the single mouse thing). When I try run ifconfig ath0 > scan, I get "ifconfig: unable to get scan results". My loader.conf is > attached to -- I presume that the kernels are loadd, but I can't > figure out how to check. I DO see ath0 in the dmesg. > > Any help is appreciated! > Are you running 8.0 ? if so the way wireless works has changed somewhat. instead of using the ath0 device directly you need to make a wlan0 device which uses the ath0 device. I think the command line is ifconfig wlan0 create wavelandev ath0 wlanmode (pick from sta hostap adhoc or whatever) see wlan(4) and ifconfig(8), see also the entry dated 20080420 in /usr/src/updating (or in http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/release/8.0.0/UPDATING?revision=199625&view=markup) if you dont have a source tree installed. Once thats done, the rest should be as per the handbook i think. Vince > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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