Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:22:12 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig for WLAN using WEP Message-ID: <2147483647.1103905332@[192.168.2.101]> In-Reply-To: <200412230949.iBN9ngPt026975@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <200412230949.iBN9ngPt026975@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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--On Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:49 AM -0600 Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> wrote: > > As it turns out, this was the right question to ask, for which I > thank Paul. > Glad I was able to help. > > I interpret the above as meaning that the "Broadband" interface is the > dial-up interface, the "Local Area" interface is the real Ethernet > interface (not connected physically), the 1394 interface is the infrared > port as Ethernet- over-FireWire (fwe0), and the Dell 1450 card is indeed > the wireless interface. Looking through the boot messages from > FreeBSD 5.2.1, I don't see anything that looks like the Dell wireless > card being detected. I've looked through all the man pages for the > various interface types and haven't seen anything that looks appropriate. > If anyone reading this can suggest what to do next, please do. > What happens when you type "% ifconfig wi0 up" and then type "% ifconfig"? Do you see the interface? Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu
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