Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:41:01 -0400 (EDT) From: doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> To: Marwan Sultan <dead_line@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO wireless please. Message-ID: <20060720141313.F54217@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY20-F2445F545BB650761E0B97F9A610@phx.gbl> References: <BAY20-F2445F545BB650761E0B97F9A610@phx.gbl>
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Marwan Sultan wrote: > Hello Garrett, > Hello doug, > > In > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html > it doesnot explain how to setup ugen0 device or any wireless device for a > client, insted it says > "First, make sure your system can see the wireless card:" > > However, in ifconfig -a > it doesnot show any wireless device as you wrote Garrett, but the firewire > and nic device, > then how come in the dmesg it can read the ugen0 > > However, anyone can give me a steps of how to showup my wireless device? > I tried to add the following in /boot/loader.conf > wlan_load="YES" > wlan_wep_load="YES" > > but it doesnt load my device and ifconfig -a will show the same > > Will you please, help me setting my wireless device up? > any configuration i should do? You did not mention Garrett's reference: http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-27794.html. If may be that your card requires you to manually load the firmware as did the Intel card on my laptop. At some point RTFM becomes a necessity. Here is the road map I followed: 1) Make sure the hardware works. The easiest way to do this is to boot to windows. If you make your system a FreeBSD only, thats a whole other thread. 2) Make sure your card is in the supported list. If it is and ugen is the appropriate drive: man ugen. 3) google your card by name and chipset. The things you find for Linux and the other BSDs will probably be helpful at the driver level. 4) The output from dmesg and pciconf -v may help. Turning on verbose mode in boot may also help. 5) Search the archives on the freebsd mobile and hardware lists. Search questions for ugen in the subject. 6) If all the above fails there is a drive that runs the native windows drivers. Project evil I think on sourceforge. I personally favor running the generic kernel and using kldload and kldstat to figure out what drivers you really need, then loading them at boot time with loader.conf. As I do not have any laptops that use ugen I can not give you specific advise. I hope the above is sorta what you were looking for and helps. You never mentioned what laptop you have, I assume HP from the dmesg. The HP site might actually help, they support FreeBSD, or so I have been told. g'luck > regards > Marwan > > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! > http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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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