On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, herbert langhans wrote: > Hi Daemons, > I have some troubles to get connected to an open Wifi-Net. > > Its an older IBM Stinkpad 600 and I bought a new PCMCIA-card for it. > Chipset of the card is from Atheros, this is recommended by the FreeBSD > Handbook. > > I boot the Laptop, the drivers seem to be compiled in the generic > Kernel. Booting shows something like: > ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xff9f0000-0xff9fffff irq 17 at device 2.0 on > pci2 > ath0: Ethernet address: 00:11:95:d5:43:62 > ath0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6 > > Good. Then I try: > # ifconfig ath0 up scan > # > (I tried this in a cool caf?, with cool people there and a cool open > access point..) > > Nothing. There should be a list of the available access points. > Is that right? > Something I missed with the setup? > > I tried: > #kldload wlan_wep.ko > #kldload wlan_ccmp.ko > #kldload wlan_tkip.ko > > ..and BSD 7.2, a very recent version, tells me that these files already exist > (so the kernel took > already care of it). > > What am I doing wrong?? > All ideas appreciated! > Thanks > herb langhans >
Assuming that you know the SSID. # ifconfig ath0 ssid SSID # ifconfig ath0 up # dhclient ath0 What do you observe in this case (ie. dmesg log) ? thanks Saifi. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
