Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:25:17 -0400 (EDT) From: doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO wireless please. Message-ID: <20060720131344.L1859@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <44BFB988.10200@u.washington.edu> References: <BAY20-F92E8B7F9ACF50C2B9C0E79A610@phx.gbl> <44BFB816.6060509@u.washington.edu> <44BFB988.10200@u.washington.edu>
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Garrett Cooper wrote: >> Marwan Sultan wrote: >>> 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 >> Marwan, >> fwe0 is your ethernet over IEEE1394 (firewire) connection. According to >> the information above you don't have your wireless interface even present, >> ie ugen0 was not present in the ifconfig output you have listed above. >> -Garrett > Here are some good relevant comments about your chipset: > <http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-27794.html>, and you > should refer to this page > (<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html>; > : Chapter 27.3) instead of the chapter mentioned in the bsdforums thread I > gave earlier. > -Garrette Also the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking.html With no wep I think your rc.conf is ok, if you use wep: ifconfig_ugen0="wepmode on deftxkey 1 wepkey 0x<key> DHCP assuming you are using FreeBSD 5 or 6, you can dynamically load all the drivers using /boot/loader.conf. For my laptop (a thinkpad T42p) I have: snd_ich_load="YES" if_ipw_load="YES" wlan_load="YES" wlan_wep_load="YES" acpi_ibm_load="YES" That saves rebuilding the kernel to add the ugen device, assuming it is not there. > _______________________________________________ > 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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