From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 3 10:18:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3FA71065698 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:18:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from ostracod.unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B39378FC15 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:18:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vhoffman.lon.namesco.net (53.78-246-213.ippool.namesco.net [213.246.78.53]) (authenticated bits=0) by ostracod.unsane.co.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nB3AIxbx020895 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:19:02 GMT (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4B179074.30404@unsane.co.uk> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:18:28 +0000 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FW References: <8029763b0912022058y65dc9ff7p64feea88fbd89c3f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8029763b0912022058y65dc9ff7p64feea88fbd89c3f@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with wifi and macbook 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: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:18:34 -0000 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"