Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:34:11 +0000 From: "Marwan Sultan" <dead_line@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: HOWTO wireless please. Message-ID: <BAY20-F92E8B7F9ACF50C2B9C0E79A610@phx.gbl>
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Hello gurus, Can someone help me setting up my wireless device on my laptop im on 6.1R, I tried to do as instructed on handbook, but no luck. My laptop suppose to be the client, and i have a netgear wireless modem router up and running. How to make the freebsd see the router have the ip, and make the device up? from dmesg ugen0: Broadcom Corp HP Integrated Module The following is the output of ifconfig -a # ifconfig -a fwe0: flags=108943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu 1500 options=8<VLAN_MTU> inet6 fe80::603f:2ff:fe6c:4184%fwe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255 ether 62:3f:02:6c:41:84 ch 1 dma 0 fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 options=8<VLAN_MTU> inet6 fe80::216:d4ff:fe01:617e%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 inet 192.168.0.14 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ether 00:16:d4:01:61:7e media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 the following is in /etc/rc.conf (i think there is something wrong) ifconfig_fwe0="DHCP" dhcp_program="/sbin/dhclient" ddhcp_flags="" the following is compiles in the kernel wlan an awi ral wi wlan_wep wlan_ccmp wlan_tkip wl As i have been told that fwe0 is not the wireless device, then how to show it up? compiled the kernel to some modifications as i wrote here, but no luck, Will kindly someone help me, as im new to wireless and bsd. Marwan _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/
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