On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Garrett Cooper wrote:
Garrett Cooper wrote:
Marwan Sultan wrote:
Hello gurus,
Can someone help me setting up my wireless device on my laptop
im on 6.1R, I tried to do as instructed on handbook, but no luck.
My laptop suppose to be the client, and i have a netgear wireless modem
router up and running.
How to make the freebsd see the router have the ip, and make the device
up?
from dmesg
ugen0: Broadcom Corp HP Integrated Module
The following is the output of ifconfig -a
# ifconfig -a
fwe0:
flags=108943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT>
mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
inet6 fe80::603f:2ff:fe6c:4184%fwe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
ether 62:3f:02:6c:41:84
ch 1 dma 0
fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
inet6 fe80::216:d4ff:fe01:617e%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
inet 192.168.0.14 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
ether 00:16:d4:01:61:7e
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
the following is in /etc/rc.conf (i think there is something wrong)
ifconfig_fwe0="DHCP"
dhcp_program="/sbin/dhclient"
ddhcp_flags=""
the following is compiles in the kernel
wlan
an
awi
ral
wi
wlan_wep
wlan_ccmp
wlan_tkip
wl As i have been told that fwe0 is not the wireless device, then how to
show it up?
compiled the kernel to some modifications as i wrote here, but no luck,
Will kindly someone help me, as im new to wireless and bsd.
Marwan
Marwan,
fwe0 is your ethernet over IEEE1394 (firewire) connection. According to
the information above you don't have your wireless interface even present,
ie ugen0 was not present in the ifconfig output you have listed above.
-Garrett
Here are some good relevant comments about your chipset:
<http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-27794.html>, and you
should refer to this page
(<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html>
: Chapter 27.3) instead of the chapter mentioned in the bsdforums thread I
gave earlier.
-Garrette
Also the handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking.html
With no wep I think your rc.conf is ok, if you use wep:
ifconfig_ugen0="wepmode on deftxkey 1 wepkey 0x<key> DHCP
assuming you are using FreeBSD 5 or 6, you can dynamically load all the drivers
using /boot/loader.conf. For my laptop (a thinkpad T42p) I have:
snd_ich_load="YES"
if_ipw_load="YES"
wlan_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"
acpi_ibm_load="YES"
That saves rebuilding the kernel to add the ugen device, assuming it is not
there.
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