On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Marwan Sultan wrote:
Hello Garrett,
Hello doug,
In
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
it doesnot explain how to setup ugen0 device or any wireless device for a
client, insted it says
"First, make sure your system can see the wireless card:"
However, in ifconfig -a
it doesnot show any wireless device as you wrote Garrett, but the firewire
and nic device,
then how come in the dmesg it can read the ugen0
However, anyone can give me a steps of how to showup my wireless device?
I tried to add the following in /boot/loader.conf
wlan_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"
but it doesnt load my device and ifconfig -a will show the same
Will you please, help me setting my wireless device up?
any configuration i should do?
You did not mention Garrett's reference:
http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-27794.html. If may be that
your card requires you to manually load the firmware as did the Intel card on my
laptop. At some point RTFM becomes a necessity. Here is the road map I
followed:
1) Make sure the hardware works. The easiest way to do this is to boot to
windows. If you make your system a FreeBSD only, thats a whole other thread.
2) Make sure your card is in the supported list. If it is and ugen is the
appropriate drive: man ugen.
3) google your card by name and chipset. The things you find for Linux and the
other BSDs will probably be helpful at the driver level.
4) The output from dmesg and pciconf -v may help. Turning on verbose mode in
boot may also help.
5) Search the archives on the freebsd mobile and hardware lists. Search
questions for ugen in the subject.
6) If all the above fails there is a drive that runs the native windows drivers.
Project evil I think on sourceforge.
I personally favor running the generic kernel and using kldload and kldstat to
figure out what drivers you really need, then loading them at boot time with
loader.conf.
As I do not have any laptops that use ugen I can not give you specific advise. I
hope the above is sorta what you were looking for and helps. You never mentioned
what laptop you have, I assume HP from the dmesg. The HP site might actually
help, they support FreeBSD, or so I have been told.
g'luck
regards
Marwan
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
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