Re: WiFi 802.11b or g setup

2004-11-03 Thread Dick Davies
* Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1113 00:13]: Start with the basics Exactly! Here you go: plip0: flags=8851UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6

Re: WiFi 802.11b or g setup

2004-11-03 Thread Lloyd Hayes
By modem you mean network card, yeah? Do the usb2 hub and the pcmcia slot show up? And have you tried removing that - don't think freebsd supports usb2 hubs yet, it might be causing some conflicts. The USB2 hub has to be recognized since I installed the system with a CD ROM attached to this

Re: WiFi 802.11b or g setup

2004-11-02 Thread luke
The Linksys 802.11b card is a 2 month old card, model WPC11 ver.4. It uses the RealTek 8139 chipset. (One piece of software on a Linux system reported this as having a RealTek 8180 chipset.) this is an 8180 chipset. 8139 is a wired chipset, 8180l is 802.11b. i have a similar card made by

Re: WiFi 802.11b or g setup

2004-11-01 Thread Dick Davies
* Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1057 19:57]: I have several wifi modems. I've read where the Linksys 802.11b seems the most compatable with UNIX type systems. I bought this one recently. I also have the US Robodics 802.11g, Netware 802.11b, and a generic wavelan 802.11b PCMCIA card. I have

Re: WiFi 802.11b or g setup

2004-11-01 Thread Lloyd Hayes
Somehow or someway, my approach to this problem is completely wrong. Using the various network connection programs, all respond that there is no network connector attached. I put FBSD (for a day) on this box a couple of months ago. The light on the PCMCIA WiFi card did come on then. (Linksys

Re: WiFi 802.11b or g setup

2004-11-01 Thread Luke Kearney
On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 11:31:13 -0700 Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Somehow or someway, my approach to this problem is completely wrong. Using the various network connection programs, all respond that there is no network connector attached. I put FBSD (for a day) on this box a

Re: WiFi 802.11b or g setup

2004-11-01 Thread Lloyd Hayes
My software is configured to reply with a 'Top Posted'. I got used to this 25 years ago, and have used this format ever since. I usually remember what I wrote and am simply looking for answers or responses. I sort through previous information only when I need to. Usually my memory is adequate.

Re: WiFi 802.11b or g setup

2004-11-01 Thread Dick Davies
* Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1138 20:38]: When I go to configure an Internet connection over a network, I seem to be getting the same errors with FreeBSD and the wifi card that I got with Linux. I am probably approaching it wrong, someway. Trying to do something (?) that I shouldn't,

Re: WiFi 802.11b or g setup

2004-11-01 Thread Lloyd Hayes
Start with the basics Exactly! Here you go: plip0: flags=8851UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 On FreeBSD, I've been

WiFi 802.11b or g setup

2004-10-31 Thread Lloyd Hayes
I have several wifi modems. I've read where the Linksys 802.11b seems the most compatable with UNIX type systems. I bought this one recently. I also have the US Robodics 802.11g, Netware 802.11b, and a generic wavelan 802.11b PCMCIA card. I have yet to get any of these to work under a UNIX