From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 13 01:01:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F02E106566C for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:01:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@freebsd.org) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 371378FC15 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:01:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@freebsd.org) Received: from trouble.errno.com (trouble.errno.com [10.0.0.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.13.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id n6D11dEr056205 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:01:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4A5A8773.9020905@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:01:39 -0700 From: Sam Leffler Organization: FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090705) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gravisman References: <24453847.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <24453847.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DCC-x.dcc-servers-Metrics: ebb.errno.com; whitelist Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting up wlan with vap - wlan0 doesn't appear X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:01:40 -0000 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