After much effort I found a wireless PCMCIA card that is supported by FreeBSD. Now I have to get connected to a wireless network, and I need some help.
I have read man wi, and the Handbook, but I'm still missing something. When I stick in the card in it is recognized and here is the output of ifconfig: lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552 faith0: flags=8002<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.100.24 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255 inet6 fe80::206:25ff:fe2a:4197%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 ether 00:06:25:2a:41:97 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps) status: no carrier ssid "" 1:"" stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node" channel 0 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 I enter the following to connect with the unencrypted network with the SSID "kieran", which is not broadcasting its SSID: sudo ifconfig wi0 ssid kieran I still cannot ping either by ip or dns. Here is the output of ifconfig: lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552 faith0: flags=8002<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.100.24 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255 inet6 fe80::206:25ff:fe2a:4197%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 ether 00:06:25:2a:41:97 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps) status: associated ssid kieran 1:kieran stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node" channel 6 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 As near as I can tell, I don't know enough about networking FreeBSD, and it is that ignorance that is the problem. Any suggestions? I am including the output of dmesg, in case that's useful. -- yours, William Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Mon Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Intel Pentium III (498.27-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x683 Stepping = 3 Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> real memory = 201129984 (196416K bytes) config> en pcic1 config> po pcic1 0x3e2 config> ir pcic1 0 config> iom pcic1 0xd4000 config> f pcic1 0 config> en sn0 config> po sn0 0x300 config> ir sn0 10 config> f sn0 0 config> q avail memory = 190193664 (185736K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc053f000. Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc053f09c. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Malloc disk pcibios: No call entry point npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> on motherboard pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 agp0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> mem 0x40000000-0x43ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1 pci1: <NeoMagic MagicMedia 256ZX SVGA controller> at 0.0 irq 11 pcic0: <TI PCI-1450 PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0x50103000-0x50103fff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci0 pcic0: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: [ring enable][speaker enable][pwr save][FUNC pci int + CSC serial isa irq] pccard0: <PC Card 16-bit bus (classic)> on pcic0 pcic1: <TI PCI-1450 PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0x50102000-0x50102fff irq 11 at device 2.1 on pci0 pcic1: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: [ring enable][speaker enable][pwr save][FUNC pci int + CSC serial isa irq] pccard1: <PC Card 16-bit bus (classic)> on pcic1 pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x11c1, dev=0x0449) at 3.0 irq 11 pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x1013, dev=0x6003) at 6.0 irq 11 isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0xfcf0-0xfcff at device 7.1 on pci0ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0x4000-0x401f irq 11 at device 7.2 on pci0 usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered chip0: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> port 0xefa0-0xefaf at device 7.3 on pci0 orm0: <Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xcbfff on isa0 pmtimer0 on isa0 fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 ppc0: parallel port not found. pccard: card inserted, slot 1 pccard: card removed, slot 1 ad0: 9590MB <IBM-DJSA-210> [19485/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 acd0: CDROM <CRN-8241B> at ata1-master PIO4 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a pccard: card inserted, slot 1 wi0 at port 0x240-0x27f irq 11 slot 1 on pccard1 wi0: 802.11 address: 00:06:25:2a:41:97 wi0: using RF:PRISM3(PCMCIA) wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.01.00, Station 1.04.02 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"