Re: IBM Stinkpad and Wifi
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 0xff9f-0xff9f 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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: IBM Stinkpad and Wifi
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 07:47:41PM +0200, herbert langhans wrote: Good. Then I try: # ifconfig ath0 up scan # (I tried this in a cool café, 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 haven't seen up and scan used together like that before. Is that supported? Have you tried the following? # ifconfig ath0 up # ifconfig ath0 list scan -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Christopher Hitchens: What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. pgpWmgda4uNn3.pgp Description: PGP signature
IBM Stinkpad and Wifi
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 0xff9f-0xff9f 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 café, 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 -- sprachtraining langhans herbert langhans, warschau http://www.langhans.com.pl herbert dot raimund at gmx dot net +0048 603 341 441 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
