Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 11:31:13 -0700 From: Lloyd Hayes <lloyd545220-trucker@yahoo.com> To: Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WiFi 802.11b or g setup Message-ID: <418680F1.2030405@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041101094142.GA4930@lb.tenfour> References: <41853E85.7010403@yahoo.com> <20041101094142.GA4930@lb.tenfour>
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Somehow or someway, my approach to this problem is completely wrong. Using the various network connection programs, all respond that there is no network connector attached. I put FBSD (for a day) on this box a couple of months ago. The light on the PCMCIA WiFi card did come on then. (Linksys card.) But a network scan still said that there was no network connector attached or present. This time, the light doesn't even come on. I'm beginning to think that the SSH program is a problem source. But I'm am also sure that I am approaching this wrong and need some direction. (I've tried all of the options in the sysinstall network menu.) (100% of my Internet connection is through WiFi services. I travel all year long. When I sometimes go home to Wyoming, my cell phone normally doesn't work there. No phone lines. A wind generator and a gas generator for electricity. Snow gets over 10 feet deep during a normal winter. Travel in the winter is by snowmobile. Antelope, moose, and elk get in my way during the day and wake me up in the night. Usually I don't want to leave there...) Lloyd Hayes Email: lloyd545220-trucker@yahoo.com URL: http://TalkingStaff.bravehost.com E-FAX Number: (208) 248-6590 Dick Davies wrote: >* Lloyd Hayes <lloyd545220-trucker@yahoo.com> [1057 19:57]: > > >>I have several wifi modems. I've read where the Linksys 802.11b seems >>the most compatable with UNIX type systems. I bought this one recently. >>I also have the US Robodics 802.11g, Netware 802.11b, and a generic >>wavelan 802.11b PCMCIA card. I have yet to get any of these to work >>under a UNIX type system. Obviously there is something here that I don't >>understand. >> >>Anyone have some step-by-step instuctions for this idiot? >> >> > >What have you tried, and what didn't work? > > >
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