hi! Just do ifconfig wlan0 up - then wait; it'll do scan itself. then "ifconfig wlan0 list scan"
-a On 1 April 2018 at 05:24, Alex Andrews <m...@alexandrews.me.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry, I got your contact details from the FreeBSD Wiki page for WiFi ideas. > I am a newbie to FreeBSD (plenty of Windows experience, and a little Linux > experience) but I just can't get the wifi working on my MSI X-610 laptop > under FreeBSD 11.1. I have followed all of the instructions and asked for > help on the forum, but "ifconfig wlan0 up scan" just produces no output even > though I know there are about a dozen wifi access points in range. I suspect > it is a problem with the driver, but I'm not sure how to verify that. What > would be really useful is a simple wifi debugging tool that could run through > all of the steps necessary to get a wifi card working (check the driver is > loaded and working, check "syctl net.lan.devices", then check /etc/rc.conf > for the correct wlans_ and ifconfig_ entries, etc etc). I imagine this would > be a fairly simple task for someone with the appropriate knowledge/skill set, > and I am sure others would find it useful too. Any chance this might be > conside re > d? > > Thanks very much, > > Alex > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
