Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:27:06 -0500 From: Robert Fitzpatrick <lists@webtent.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Wireless pc card on FreeBSD 6.0 Message-ID: <1132604826.679.12.camel@felipa.webtent.org>
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I have my wireless card associating with my access point using the following command from the doc at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD +5.3-RELEASE # ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid WEBTENT # ifconfig ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 inet6 fe80::280:c8ff:fe1f:9655%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 ether 00:80:c8:1f:96:55 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps) status: associated ssid WEBTENT channel 6 bssid 00:05:5d:89:c8:78 authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 32 protmode CTS bintval 100 But cannot browse the network at all. I also have a wired connection to the network on the laptop and cannot ping the address assigned to the wireless card unless the wired connection is connected, why would this be? Also, of course, as you can see above, I need to get WEP going, but not sure how to specify the WEP key in ASCII or determine the HEX needed from the ASCII key, can someone suggest how this is done? And I'd like to get it to use DHCP, how would I do this? -- Robert
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