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Date:      Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:12:23 -0800
From:      Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Trying to set up wireless networking
Message-ID:  <CAFuo_fzCjUkD6-C5sfLECA%2B6_XqhyWbyvM831qsVRFRW1AYPBA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <le3m0v$83p$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <le3m0v$83p$1@ger.gmane.org>

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On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a fresh installation of 10.0-RELEASE (amd64).
>
> Despite following the relevant section in the handbook, I can't seem to
> get wireless networking (at home) set up properly.
>
> The router is on 192.168.1.1, using WEP (yes, I know) and I am trying to
> give FreeBSD a fixed IP address of 192.168.1.3.
>
> Here is the output of ifconfig wlan0:
>
> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether 0c:ee:e6:80:ed:52
>         inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>         inet6 fe80::eee:e6ff:fe80:ed52%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet MCS mode 11ng
>         status: associated
>         ssid daddysnetwork channel 7 (2442 MHz 11g ht/20) bssid
> 00:24:01:c6:d7:c4
>         regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1
>         wepkey 1:104-bit txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS
>         ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 4 shortgi wme burst
>
> But when I try, for example, to ping 8.8.8.8 (Google's public DNS), all
> packets are lost.
>
> What am I doing wrong? What other information should I provide?
>
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hi, did you try:
> route add default 192.168.1.1

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Waitman Gobble
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