Wireless Networking

2013-07-10 Thread Walter Hurry
9.1-RELEASE-p4 on amd64. This is a laptop with an Atheros 9280 wireless chip in a domestic setting with a single router and a cable modem. I have never had to use wireless before, but am now in another room. I have followed the handbook, and it seems to be working well. One question though

Re: [Bulk] Wireless Networking

2013-07-10 Thread Alexandre
On Wednesday, July 10, 2013, Walter Hurry wrote: 9.1-RELEASE-p4 on amd64. This is a laptop with an Atheros 9280 wireless chip in a domestic setting with a single router and a cable modem. I have never had to use wireless before, but am now in another room. I have followed the handbook

Re: trouble setting up wireless

2013-06-09 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 06/09/13 01:24, Warren Block wrote: First, check the easy things: is there a physical switch to enable wireless? Is it on? There is no physical switch to enable wireless there. Please post the output of 'ifconfig -a'. root@box0:/root # ifconfig -a ath0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING

Re: trouble setting up wireless

2013-06-09 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 9 Jun 2013, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 06/09/13 01:24, Warren Block wrote: First, check the easy things: is there a physical switch to enable wireless? Is it on? There is no physical switch to enable wireless there. Notebooks also have function-key combinations to enable

Re: trouble setting up wireless

2013-06-09 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 06/09/13 01:24, Warren Block wrote: First, check the easy things: is there a physical switch to enable wireless? Is it on? There is no physical switch to enable wireless there. Notebooks also have function-key combinations to enable and disable the radio. I've been able to use

Re: trouble setting up wireless

2013-06-09 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 9 Jun 2013, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 06/09/13 01:24, Warren Block wrote: First, check the easy things: is there a physical switch to enable wireless? Is it on? There is no physical switch to enable wireless there. Notebooks also have function-key combinations to enable

Re: trouble setting up wireless

2013-06-09 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 06/09/13 18:44, Warren Block wrote: The ath_hal(4) man page says that the support for my wireless card is handled via ath_hal. It seems to be compiled into the kernel, but I'm not seeing it being loaded like the wpa_ and ath_pci modules are. 'kldstat' should show it. It doesn't. kldstat

re: trouble setting up wireless

2013-06-08 Thread Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk
Howdy, Been trying to setup wireless on a laptop with an Atheros 5424/2424 card running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE. Been following the instructions given in the handbook. Running 'ifconfig wlan0 up scan' does not seem to return anything. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Alexander Kapshuk

re: trouble setting up wireless

2013-06-08 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 8 Jun 2013, Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk wrote: Howdy, Been trying to setup wireless on a laptop with an Atheros 5424/2424 card running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE. Been following the instructions given in the handbook. Running 'ifconfig wlan0 up scan' does not seem to return anything. What am

Re: trouble setting up wireless

2013-06-08 Thread Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk
On 06/08/2013 09:03 PM, Warren Block wrote: Howdy, Been trying to setup wireless on a laptop with an Atheros 5424/2424 card running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE. Been following the instructions given in the handbook. Running 'ifconfig wlan0 up scan' does not seem to return anything. What am I

Re: trouble setting up wireless

2013-06-08 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 8 Jun 2013, Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk wrote: On 06/08/2013 09:03 PM, Warren Block wrote: Howdy, Been trying to setup wireless on a laptop with an Atheros 5424/2424 card running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE. Been following the instructions given in the handbook. Running 'ifconfig wlan0 up

Re: trouble setting up wireless

2013-06-08 Thread Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk
On 06/08/2013 09:33 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 8 Jun 2013, Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk wrote: On 06/08/2013 09:03 PM, Warren Block wrote: Howdy, Been trying to setup wireless on a laptop with an Atheros 5424/2424 card running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE. Been following the instructions given

Re: trouble setting up wireless [AR2425]

2013-06-08 Thread Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk
On 06/08/2013 09:33 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 8 Jun 2013, Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk wrote: On 06/08/2013 09:03 PM, Warren Block wrote: Howdy, Been trying to setup wireless on a laptop with an Atheros 5424/2424 card running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE. Been following the instructions given

Re: trouble setting up wireless

2013-06-08 Thread Warren Block
wlandev ath0' creates wlan0. 'wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' produces no output. dhclient wlan0 says no link giving up. What am I doing wrong? First, check the easy things: is there a physical switch to enable wireless? Is it on? Please post the output

Install TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 wireless network interface card

2013-04-10 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good afternoon, dear FreeBSd enthusiasts. Is there anyone who has attempted to install a TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 p.c.i.-express wireless network interface card? I am using FreeBSD 9.1 on a Hewlett-Packard xw4400 workstation. The card works perfectly under Windows XP. However, it seems

Re: Install TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 wireless network interface card

2013-04-10 Thread Joshua Isom
You'll need to run -CURRENT instead of 9.1, and all the caveats that apply. You'll also need the special HAL that hasn't yet been commited to -CURRENT. There are instructions on the freebsd-wireless mailing list. I'm using that exact card right now. Run `pciconf -lv` and you should see

Intel Centrion Wireless N-2230 status?

2013-03-25 Thread Mikhail Krutov
Hello! Recently I've bought a laptop which has Intel Centrino N-2230 wireless card in it. Currently it runs Linux, however I'd like to be able to have WiFi available for FreeBSD (wifi is almost the only thing that stops me from installing bsd) Is any work ongoing for that chip

Slowdown of iwn wireless

2013-01-18 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! On my home network I noticed that wireless transfer slows down a lot over time. It starts at reasonable internet speed of 300kB/s or something but after 2h of using the network it barely gets more than 20kB/s across. Rebooting helps, as does kicking the kernel module/interface and recreating

Re: buffalo wli-uc-gn wireless card sometimes unusable and emit run0: wcid=xx out of range

2013-01-03 Thread Jov
+0800 From: Jov zhao6...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: buffalo wli-uc-gn wireless card sometimes unusable and emit run0: wcid=xx out of range Message-ID: cadyruxprp6os2mpk51yiwog-jkwtq+xpop48uzq+y15_our...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain

Re: buffalo wli-uc-gn wireless card sometimes unusable and emit run0: wcid=xx out of range

2013-01-03 Thread Jov
-uc-gn wireless card sometimes unusable and emit run0: wcid=xx out of range Message-ID: cadyruxprp6os2mpk51yiwog-jkwtq+xpop48uzq+y15_our...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 hi experts: I think the hardware is ok because I can use it in Win7

buffalo wli-uc-gn wireless card sometimes unusable and emit run0: wcid=xx out of range

2012-12-31 Thread Jov
hi experts: I think the hardware is ok because I can use it in Win7. And in Freebsd 9.1,it works for sometime,but sometimes after system reboot or I plug out plug in the card it my unusable.on the console it emmit: run0: wcid=xx out of range where xx is 91,87 and etc. it seams the wifi is

Re: buffalo wli-uc-gn wireless card sometimes unusable and emit run0: wcid=xx out of range

2012-12-31 Thread PseudoCylon
Message: 13 Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:11:04 +0800 From: Jov zhao6...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: buffalo wli-uc-gn wireless card sometimes unusable and emit run0: wcid=xx out of range Message-ID: cadyruxprp6os2mpk51yiwog-jkwtq+xpop48uzq+y15_our

Re: buffalo wli-uc-gn wireless card sometimes unusable and emit run0: wcid=xx out of range

2012-12-31 Thread Jov
thanks very much,i will try the patch. jov 在 2013-1-1 下午1:19,PseudoCylon moonlightak...@yahoo.ca写道: Message: 13 Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:11:04 +0800 From: Jov zhao6...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: buffalo wli-uc-gn wireless card sometimes unusable and emit

Problem with connecting FreeBSD 8.3 to wireless network

2012-10-28 Thread Manish Jain
paid for and succeeded in getting temporary access to a wireless network. Win XP connects to the network pretty smoothly, so there was much reason for hope that things would go smoothly on my FreeBSD 8.3 installation too. I tried configuring the Atheros device to the network as explained

Re: Problem with connecting FreeBSD 8.3 to wireless network

2012-10-28 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/28/12 20:50, Manish Jain wrote: # dmesg | grep -i ath Empty output Doesn't look like your atheros network card has been detected by your system. Did you check the ath(4) man page to see if your particular piece of hardware is supported on FreeBSD 8.3?

Re: Problem with connecting FreeBSD 8.3 to wireless network

2012-10-28 Thread Manish Jain
the courage to build the GNOME2 metaport from the ports directory. Since this would not be possible within my lifetime with my usual internet connection, I paid for and succeeded in getting temporary access to a wireless network. Win XP connects to the network pretty smoothly, so there was much

Re: Problem with connecting FreeBSD 8.3 to wireless network

2012-10-28 Thread Chris Hill
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Manish Jain wrote: Those in a position to help but smugly choose not to may soon start experiencing a dramatic decline in their good fortunes. I'm not in a position to help, but I can explain a couple of things. # kldload ath kldload: can't load ath: File exists #

Re: a wireless network freezes the machine?

2012-10-05 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: Is it possible that wpa_supplicant or some other part of the WiFi setup causes the hangs? Nothing else has changed in the system besides its role from the access point to a WiFi client. Actually, kern/170066 may be related, but it's different hardware and in my

Re: a wireless network freezes the machine?

2012-10-01 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: [dd] Is it possible that wpa_supplicant or some other part of the WiFi setup causes the hangs? Nothing else has changed in the system besides its role from the access point to a WiFi client. Actually, kern/170066 may be related, but it's different hardware and in my

a wireless network freezes the machine?

2012-09-28 Thread Victor Sudakov
Dear Colleagues, Running FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE, ath0: Atheros 5212 mem 0xfe40-0xfe40 irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci7 ath0: AR2413 mac 7.9 RF2413 phy 4.5 I have run this box for a long time as a WiFi access point for my home laptops and smartphones and never had a problem, the config was: #

Questions on ndis for USB wireless adapter

2012-07-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
I am having problems getting the Hiro USB wireless adapter to work and think I might possibly be missing something. Chip is Realtek RTL8191S. I read the man pages for ndisgen and ndiscvt and the FreeBSD Handbook online. Do I need options NDISAPI # and device ndis in the kernel config, even

Re: urtw0 wireless device on FreeBSD problems

2012-06-19 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 06/18/2012 09:07 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear Folks, ... Is there a place where the panics/oops are saved to retrieve them and cut + paste them here? /var/log/, /tmp/ ? If you have set dumpdev in rc.conf to the location of a swap device (or AUTO to have it pick one), the core dump (and

urtw0 wireless device on FreeBSD problems

2012-06-18 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear Folks, following an excellent guide by W. Block: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/wireless.html I connected successfully to a wireless network. However, the connection works for a while then drops off. At the end I get a kernel panic and the machine presents press something

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, Please email freebsd-wireless@ with wireless related questions. Try wlandebug -i wlan0 +crypto and see if you get encryption errors. Unfortunately there's currently no broadcom NIC maintainer, so things are falling behind. adrian ___ freebsd

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-07 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 414, Issue 1, Message: 13 On Sun, 06 May 2012 21:48:19 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: On 06/05/2012 17:31, Ian Smith wrote: Anton, I'm not sure what the state of the art is for multiple network profiles for such as wireless vs wired, home

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-07 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
is for multiple network profiles for such as wireless vs wired, home and work etc, but look around. I recall one called just 'profile' from years ago, and more recently talk of 'failover' setups for wired/wireless nets (probably in n...@freebsd.org), but I've no time for hunting tonight

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-06 Thread Ian Smith
a wide range of unixish OSes. Anton, I'm not sure what the state of the art is for multiple network profiles for such as wireless vs wired, home and work etc, but look around. I recall one called just 'profile' from years ago, and more recently talk of 'failover' setups for wired/wireless nets

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-06 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 06/05/2012 17:31, Ian Smith wrote: Anton, I'm not sure what the state of the art is for multiple network profiles for such as wireless vs wired, home and work etc, but look around. I recall one called just 'profile' from years ago, and more recently talk of 'failover' setups for wired

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-05 Thread Ian Smith
,AUTO_LINKLOCAL media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g status: associated ssid lagartixa channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g) bssid 00:18:39:e6:46:b6 country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 30 bmiss 7

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 04:56:33PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I've US Robotics 5411 wireless pccard device. It's identified as: # pciconf -lv *skip* siba_bwn0@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x431814e4 chip=0x431814e4 rev=0x02 hdr

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
:49:58:00:fe inet 192.168.1.104 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 nd6 options=29PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11b status: associated ssid lagartixa channel 11 (2462 MHz 11b) bssid 00:18:39:e6

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
192.168.1.255 nd6 options=29PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g status: associated ssid lagartixa channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g) bssid 00:18:39:e6:46:b6 country US authmode WPA2/802.11i

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-05 Thread Robert Bonomi
Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g status: associated wlan0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:c0:49:58:00:fe inet 192.168.1.104 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 nd6 options=29PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL media

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
:49:58:00:fe nd6 options=29PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g status: associated wlan0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:c0:49:58:00:fe inet 192.168.1.104 netmask

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-05 Thread Robert Bonomi
configuration commands ('ifconfig' and 'route', primarily), you can write scripts that make the operational changes -without- needing to reboot. Then you can leave the 'boot' configuration at whatever you 'normally' use (probably 'work'), and run the 'wireless' script to take down the ethernet ad bring up

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-05 Thread Chris Hill
On Sat, 5 May 2012, Robert Bonomi wrote: Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote; [snip] ...I still find the whole networking area perfectly impenetrable. (If you can recommend a really introductory book on the subject, I'd really appreciate it. [snip] See also TCP/IP Network

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-04 Thread Buganini
how about `ifconfig wlan0 mode 11b` 11g sticks very soon for me and some other people. Regards, Buganini 2012/5/5 Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk: I've US Robotics 5411 wireless pccard device. It's identified as: # pciconf -lv *skip* siba_bwn0@pci0:3:0:0:   class=0x028000 card

Re: Problems using usb wireless adapter

2012-04-16 Thread PseudoCylon
-- Message: 4 Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:44:11 +0900 From: fake fake four.troublesome.he...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Problems using usb wireless adapter To: Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID:        CA

Problems using usb wireless adapter

2012-04-15 Thread fake fake
I've just got FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE on HP Pavillion dv4. When I found the internal wireless adapter (Broadcom BCM4322) is not supported, I decided to use the usb wireless adapter (Planex GW-USMicroN) which is listed on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/hardware.html then I configed the several

Re: Problems using usb wireless adapter

2012-04-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, have you tried to unplug the device and put it back in? Erich On Sunday 15 April 2012 18:54:20 fake fake wrote: I've just got FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE on HP Pavillion dv4. When I found the internal wireless adapter (Broadcom BCM4322) is not supported, I decided to use the usb wireless adapter

Re: Problems using usb wireless adapter

2012-04-15 Thread fake fake
got FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE on HP Pavillion dv4. When I found the internal wireless adapter (Broadcom BCM4322) is not supported, I decided to use the usb wireless adapter (Planex GW-USMicroN) which is listed on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/hardware.html then I configed the several files

Re: Problems using usb wireless adapter

2012-04-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 15 April 2012 21:44:11 fake fake wrote: Yes, I did. Here is the result. when it plugged out, # ugen2.2: Ralink at usbus2 (disconnected) run0: uhub2, port2, addr2 (disconnected) when it plugged in again, # ugen2.2: Ralink at usbus2 run0: 1.0 on usbus2 run0: MAC/BBP

Wireless PCI card

2012-03-17 Thread Harald Weis
Hi All, Could someone please tell me whether the following card is supported by 8.2-RELEASE-p3 (a card available in France) ? Carte PCI Wifi-N Essential TEW-643PI, 300 Mbps, TrendNet Thank you in advance. -- Harald Weis ___

Re: Wireless PCI card

2012-03-17 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Harald Weis wrote: Could someone please tell me whether the following card is supported by 8.2-RELEASE-p3 (a card available in France) ? Carte PCI Wifi-N Essential TEW-643PI, 300 Mbps, TrendNet That's a Realtek 8190 chipset. There is no native driver at present,

Re: Wireless PCI card

2012-03-17 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:44:24 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block articulated: On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Harald Weis wrote: Could someone please tell me whether the following card is supported by 8.2-RELEASE-p3 (a card available in France) ? Carte PCI Wifi-N Essential TEW-643PI, 300 Mbps, TrendNet

Re: Wireless PCI card

2012-03-17 Thread Harald Weis
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:18:05AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:44:24 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block articulated: On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Harald Weis wrote: Could someone please tell me whether the following card is supported by 8.2-RELEASE-p3 (a card available in France) ?

Re: Wireless PCI card

2012-03-17 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Harald Weis wrote: Is this one supported ? Réseau Carte PCI D-LINK PCI wifi N 300Mbps According to the Newegg comments, that has an Atheros 5008 chipset: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833127218 Make sure that's the same card. Also, be aware that

Re: Wireless PCI card

2012-03-17 Thread Harald Weis
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:18:05AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:44:24 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block articulated: On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Harald Weis wrote: Could someone please tell me whether the following card is supported by 8.2-RELEASE-p3 (a card available in France) ?

Re: Wireless PCI card

2012-03-17 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Harald Weis wrote: Is this one supported ? Réseau Carte PCI D-LINK PCI wifi N 300Mbps I just realize, this is N protocol again. N cards are backwards compatible with 802.11g.___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG (iwi) firmware error / device timeout

2012-03-13 Thread Joseph Mingrone
-lv ... iwi0@pci0:2:2:0:class=0x028000 card=0x27018086 chip=0x42208086 rev=0x05 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'driverIntel PRO/Wireless 2200BG (MPCI3B)' class = network # cat /boot/loader.conf ... legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 if_iwi_load=YES # cat

Re: Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG (iwi) firmware error / device timeout

2012-03-13 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
    = 'Intel Corporation'    device     = 'driverIntel PRO/Wireless 2200BG (MPCI3B)'    class      = network # cat /boot/loader.conf ... legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 if_iwi_load=YES # cat /etc/rc.conf | grep wlan wlans_iwi0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0=WPA DHCP # cat /etc/wap_supplicant.conf network

Bridge wired / wireless without hosting the network - is this possible

2012-02-18 Thread Mark Dixon
Hi all, Apologies if this has come up before but I can't see anything with a quick google. What I want to do is setup a bridge between my wireless network and a wired one. Hostap I hear everyone cry but I don't think that will work because I don't want to create a wireless network - I want

Re: Wireless Problem

2012-02-11 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:58:22 +0100 zaklinaczcipek128 articulated: Hi, I'm struggling with my wireless cards couple days and I can't figure out what's wrong. Following I'm under FreeBSD 9.0 RELEASE and ever since I've used it I can't connect to any wireless network. I've got Atheros NIC

Wireless Problem

2012-02-10 Thread zaklinaczcipek128
Hi, I'm struggling with my wireless cards couple days and I can't figure out what's wrong. Following I'm under FreeBSD 9.0 RELEASE and ever since I've used it I can't connect to any wireless network. I've got Atheros NIC and under every other OS it works fine, even earlier when I were under

Re: Wireless Problem

2012-02-10 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:58 PM, zaklinaczcipek128 zaklinaczcipek...@o2.plwrote: Hi, I'm struggling with my wireless cards couple days and I can't figure out what's wrong. Following I'm under FreeBSD 9.0 RELEASE and ever since I've used it I can't connect to any wireless network. I've got

Re: ath and how to control wireless light

2012-02-06 Thread Waitman Gobble
...@onetel.com wrote: Hello I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off but the light stays red. The light is supposed to show red for wireless off and blue for wireless on. I found some sysctls

Re: ath and how to control wireless light

2012-02-05 Thread Chris Whitehouse
G60 laptop. This machine has a combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off but the light stays red. The light is supposed to show red for wireless off and blue for wireless on. I found some sysctls that control it: dev.ath.0.softled: 0 dev.ath.0.ledpin: 3 dev.ath.0.ledon: 1

Re: ath and how to control wireless light

2012-02-04 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hello I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off but the light stays red. The light is supposed to show red

Re: ath and how to control wireless light

2012-02-04 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 04/02/2012 08:37, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehousecwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hello I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off but the light stays red

Re: ath and how to control wireless light

2012-02-04 Thread Waitman Gobble
wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off but the light stays red. The light is supposed to show red for wireless off and blue for wireless on. I found some sysctls that control it: dev.ath.0.softled: 0 dev.ath.0.ledpin: 3 dev.ath.0.ledon: 1 dev.ath.0.ledidle: 2700 softled

Re: ath and how to control wireless light

2012-02-04 Thread Waitman Gobble
FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off but the light stays red. The light is supposed to show red for wireless off and blue for wireless on. I found some sysctls that control it: dev.ath.0.softled: 0

Re: ath and how to control wireless light

2012-02-04 Thread Waitman Gobble
at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehousecwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hello I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off but the light stays red. The light is supposed to show red for wireless off and blue

Using lagg(4) for wired and wireless networks

2012-01-14 Thread Alex
Hi there. A portion of the documentation for link aggregation is confusing me. In example 32-3 the user is required to match the HW address of iwn0 with that of bge0. Why is this necessary? In example 32-2 this is not done. How come? -- Alex ___

Re: wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-13 Thread Waitman Gobble
:29, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hello, I am running 9.0-RC3 i386 on an Acer Aspire One D150. i am having trouble with the wireless setup. I have two wireless cards, the BCM94312MCG that came with it, and an Atheros 5424/2424 that i swapped out. I can run the BCM with ndis and the windows xp

Re: wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-13 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, January 13, 2012 a las 07:03:11AM -0800, Waitman Gobble escribió: Hi, Thanks. I've always heard countless rumors about WPA being wise :) I'll take your advice and take a step up in technology. My stubborn conservatism probably roots back to the time when not all devices could

Re: wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-13 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hello, I am running 9.0-RC3 i386 on an Acer Aspire One D150. i am having trouble with the wireless setup. I have two wireless cards, the BCM94312MCG that came with it, and an Atheros 5424/2424 that i swapped out. I can run the BCM with ndis

Re: wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-13 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Jan 13, 2012 7:19 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Friday, January 13, 2012 a las 07:03:11AM -0800, Waitman Gobble escribió: Hi, Thanks. I've always heard countless rumors about WPA being wise :) I'll take your advice and take a step up in technology. My stubborn

Re: wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-13 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Jan 13, 2012 7:38 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hello, I am running 9.0-RC3 i386 on an Acer Aspire One D150. i am having trouble with the wireless setup. I have two wireless cards, the BCM94312MCG that came

Re: wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-13 Thread Da Rock
On 01/14/12 01:38, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hello, I am running 9.0-RC3 i386 on an Acer Aspire One D150. i am having trouble with the wireless setup. I have two wireless cards, the BCM94312MCG that came with it, and an Atheros 5424/2424 that i swapped

Re: wireless and/or routing question UPDATE - WPA

2012-01-13 Thread Waitman Gobble
it barfs out an error. This clones ale0 wired NIC MAC to ath0 wireless NIC for lagg ifconfig ath0 ether 00:23:5a:59:e1:e4 ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 ssid BOOTAY ifconfig wlan0 up scan here's the wpa_supplicant that's hanging: wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf p00ntang

Re: wireless and/or routing question UPDATE - WPA

2012-01-13 Thread Da Rock
. This clones ale0 wired NIC MAC to ath0 wireless NIC for lagg ifconfig ath0 ether 00:23:5a:59:e1:e4 ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 ssid BOOTAY ifconfig wlan0 up scan here's the wpa_supplicant that's hanging: wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf p00ntang# wpa_supplicant

wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-12 Thread Waitman Gobble
Hello, I am running 9.0-RC3 i386 on an Acer Aspire One D150. i am having trouble with the wireless setup. I have two wireless cards, the BCM94312MCG that came with it, and an Atheros 5424/2424 that i swapped out. I can run the BCM with ndis and the windows xp driver, and the Atheros with the ath

Re: wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-12 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am running 9.0-RC3 i386 on an Acer Aspire One D150. i am having trouble with the wireless setup. Hi, update- i noticed if i start routed it complains... p00ntang# routed p00ntang# routed: wlan0 (10.0.0.21

Re: wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-12 Thread Da Rock
On 01/13/12 15:29, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hello, I am running 9.0-RC3 i386 on an Acer Aspire One D150. i am having trouble with the wireless setup. I have two wireless cards, the BCM94312MCG that came with it, and an Atheros 5424/2424 that i swapped out. I can run the BCM with ndis

Re: wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-12 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: On 01/13/12 15:29, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hello, I am running 9.0-RC3 i386 on an Acer Aspire One D150. i am having trouble with the wireless setup. I have two wireless cards, the BCM94312MCG

Re: wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-12 Thread Da Rock
On 01/13/12 17:11, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: On 01/13/12 15:29, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hello, I am running 9.0-RC3 i386 on an Acer Aspire One D150. i am having trouble with the wireless setup. I have

Re: wireless help with wep authentication

2011-11-20 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 11/20/11, Rob Clark rpcl...@tds.net wrote: Running fbsd 8.2R on a Dell C640 laptop. Using a pcmcia card with atheros. My 2wire wireless router comes setup default with wep open with wireless security enabled, i.e., needs the default passkey from the router. I cannot get the ifconfig

mini pci e wireless card

2011-08-30 Thread George Vagner
I am wondering what mini pci express (little tiny card) is the best, highest power and best supported overall For hostap mode. I need to replace my rl3090 in my acer revo cause I don't see it as supported and its Not detected in my dmesg (8.2r) that I can see, I want to use it as an

Re: mini pci e wireless card

2011-08-30 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, George Vagner wrote: I am wondering what mini pci express (little tiny card) is the best, highest power and best supported overall For hostap mode. Atheros b/g only is probably the best supported. Recent post:

Re: bridged wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread perryh
Paul Beard paulbe...@gmail.com wrote: After some more head scratching, it sounds like what I want is a bridge. Reading if_bridge(4), the first example looks a lot like what I am trying to do. ... Did I misread this? Does sending packets between two physical interfaces require a bridge? It

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
straightforward. Bridging does not require gateway mode to be enabled, as the packet forwarding is performed within the bridge driver, instead of within the network stack. Because of this, however, proper firewalling of wired and wireless clients is more difficult, and can weaken the security

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Beard
: makes me think they might be stepping on each other. Or it's just one more thing I don't understand :-( ath0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:0d:88:93:21:3a media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g hostap status

Closed [was Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2]

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Beard
On Aug 28, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: I did this to have the experience with it and to have a backup to my Netgear wireless router. The trouble was the Netgear wireless AP device works so well and is plenty fast, unlike what I was getting with my FreeBSD server. The Netgear

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, Paul Beard wrote: One thing that has seemed opaque to me is that both ath0 and wlan0 display when I run ifconfig and look very similar: makes me think they might be stepping on each other. Or it's just one more thing I don't understand :-( In 8.x, a virtual wlan0 device

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Beard
On Aug 28, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Warren Block wrote: In 8.x, a virtual wlan0 device is created to speak to the actual device, ath0 in this case. It's normal. Maybe I'm just confused by normality. I guess what would help in the Handbook, if nowhere else, is the *full* output of ifconfig(8)

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Paul Beard paulbe...@gmail.com To: Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 12:22 PM Subject: Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2 On Aug 28, 2011, at 7:04 AM, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: It is especially useful when you cannot

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread Warren Block
to be a wired interface for it to actually work as an access point, no? I can only speculate why that's not shown, and I'd guess it's feared that it would further confuse the reader. IMO, the wireless section is already so stuffed full of detail that it obscures the basics. In fairness, it's

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Beard
On Aug 28, 2011, at 5:28 PM, Warren Block wrote: IMO, the wireless section is already so stuffed full of detail that it obscures the basics. In fairness, it's a complicated topic. But I'd much rather see a simple setup for the 80% use case followed by another section with all the grimy

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun Aug 28 20:41:41 2011 From: Paul Beard paulbe...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:39:41 -0700 To: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD

wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-27 Thread Paul Beard
I seem to be missing something, possibly from reading too many HOWTOs. What I am trying to do is get a system with a wireless card to stand in as a wireless AP should my aging LinkSys base station develop a tragic smoke leak. It's an ath0-based card and the following steps suggest it should

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