Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:01:39 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org> To: Gravisman <gravisman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting up wlan with vap - wlan0 doesn't appear Message-ID: <4A5A8773.9020905@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <24453847.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <24453847.post@talk.nabble.com>
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Gravisman wrote:
> I just got an iogear usb wireless adapter to add to my machine which
> previously only ran a wired interface. After poking around I now see that
> wireless setup works significantly different in CURRENT than it did in
> previous releases. I haven't found too terribly much on google, but the
> basic idea seems to be that I have to setup a wlans interface in rc.conf.
> So, the following is what I added to rc.conf, which is consistent with the
> examples I've found, including the one in /usr/src/UPDATING.
>
> wlans_zyd0="wlan0"
> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
>
> I see zyd0 interface in ifconfig, but even with these lines added to
> rc.conf, I'm not getting any wlan0 interface, and I can't list scanned
> networks on zyd0. Any idea what I'm missing?
>
zyd0 is not where you list networks; if you create wlan0 then you want
ifconfig wlan0 list scan
to see the set of ap's found during a scan.
Try showing the output of ifconfig for starters. Since you've enabled
WPA I'd ask if you've created a wpa_supplicant.conf file for it? w/o
that you won't get WPA setup.
I assume all this stuff is in the documentation.
Sam
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