On Sunday 17 December 2006 00:40, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: > Good work Jonathan, > > As usual with fellow FreeBSD users, any information about how you got > past your problem is stuff Unix folks like me love to hear. I actually > save success stories like yours to help me out with wireless issues. > > I can only speak for myself but I'd love to hear how ya did it.
thanks! i was quite proud of my efforts myself! its a pretty good feeling to complete a project in an area where i have little expertise (especially when (good) internet docs are few and far between). after all the docs i read, and bad advice i followed, bad decisions i made, it all boiled down to a pretty simple recipe: 1) install net/iwi-firmware 2) add this to loader.conf: # Wireless Network - Intel 2200BG if_iwi_load="YES" wlan_acl_load="YES" wlan_wep_load="YES" wlan_ccmp_load="YES" wlan_tkip_load="YES" wlan_xauth_load="YES" 3) add this to rc.conf: ifconfig_iwi0="DHCP WPA" iwi_enable="YES" iwi_interfaces="iwi0" iwi_mod_iwi0="bss" 4) create and populate /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf: network={ ssid="myssid" psk="mypass" } reboot, rinse, enjoy! one big mistake i made, was building world up to 6.2-RC1. there was one good article about installing freebsd on an ibm t42 (found it on google), but it didnt have any info on getting wireless to auto start. after i had wireless manually up and running initially, i then built world, and updated. next boot, firmware and modules would not load. i had tweaked some other things, so i backed those changes off, and worked round and round until i decided to just do a quick reinstall. this time, i didnt use 6.1-RELEASE, but i did 6.2-RC1. same behavior, and this is when i figured out that the only time it really worked like the web page depicted, was when i was on 6.1-RELEASE. so i tried cvsuping to -p11, and things still worked fine. this is the only laptop i have (thus, my only wireless computer), so when 6.2 comes out, ill be pretty nervous about upgrading until i read that everything i kosher with iwi- support. cheers, jonathan _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"