Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 11:00:20 -0500 From: Don Hinton <don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: andreas Sotirakopoulos <menwn@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: Wireless internet connetction issues Message-ID: <200605281100.21662.don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200605281439.40203.menwn@yahoo.co.uk> References: <200605281439.40203.menwn@yahoo.co.uk>
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Hi Andreas: On Sunday 28 May 2006 06:39, andreas Sotirakopoulos wrote: > Hi > I have(?) an internet connetction issue... I have a router connected to a > windows box downstaires (Lynksis wAG354G) and i use a wirelless usb adapt= er > (Lynksis WUSB54G). It works fine under windows and even if some times the > signal is lost usually it comes back by either moving the antenna a little > or by restarting the network configuration tool. In FreeBSD the adapter is > visible and uses ural0 driver. So if give the command > ifconfig ural0 inet 192.168.1.65 netmask 255.255.255.0 but i cannot conne= ct Instead of specifying your IP, try letting dhcp take care of this for you (= as=20 you do with kde below). Add the following to /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_ural0=3D"DHCP" Then, ifconfig ural0 up will invoke dhcp to configure everything for you,=20 including your gateway and routing table. You may also want to look at you= r=20 routing table to see what's going on: # netstat -nr And flush the table if things go wrong with: # netstat flush I have to do this when moving from a wired connection to a wireless connect= ion=20 in order to reset my default route (gateway). Btw, I use FreeBSD 6.1-RELEA= SE=20 =2D- I found 5.4 wireless to be a bit flaky... hth... don > to the internet or "see" the windows box. > Now comes the strange part. if i press ifconfig ural0 i get: > > ural0: flags=3D108843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> = mtu > 1500 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 inet6 fe80::212:17ff:fe81:881a%ural0 prefixlen 64 scopeid= 0x1 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ether 00:12:17:81:88:1a > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/36M= bps) > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 status: associated > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ssid linksys channel 11 bssid 00:14:bf:cb:71:32 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 protmode CTS bintv= al 100 > but still i cannot connect to web pages or ping hosts. =A0I use KDE 3.5 a= nd i > do the following: > from the Kmenu ->settings->internet and Network-> Network settings and on > the card Network interfaces i see that there is only onde availiable > interface fxp0 dhcp Disabled Ethernet Network Device. I know that this is > my ethernet onboard card but if i choose Enable Interface i can connect to > the internet!!!!!! I assume that something runs in the background that > enables as well my wireless card but what is this? > So what's the problem you may ask... the problem is that in case that my > connection is lost i cannot do anything to get it back up. > > i =A0have tried dhclient ural0 and nothing happents same with ifconfig ur= al0 > up... > I have to reboot and do the procudure again and the problem is that it > fails often if i leave the net for a while... > > Any ideas? > thanks > > > ___________________________________________________________ > To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yaho= o! > Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > 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" =2D-=20 Don Hinton <don.hinton at vanderbilt.edu> tel: 615.480.5667 ISIS, Vanderbilt University skype: donhinton http://people.vanderbilt.edu/~don.hinton/
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