Re: Problems with wifi and macbook
FW wrote: I have successfully installed freebsd on my macbook (yay!), but I can't figure out how to make the wifi work. Wired networking works great. I am following the directions here : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html, but I have only got up to section 31.3.3.1, since I can't get past the scanning part. My ifconfig output is attached (can't figure out cutting and pasting in icewm with the single mouse thing). When I try run ifconfig ath0 scan, I get ifconfig: unable to get scan results. My loader.conf is attached to -- I presume that the kernels are loadd, but I can't figure out how to check. I DO see ath0 in the dmesg. Any help is appreciated! Are you running 8.0 ? if so the way wireless works has changed somewhat. instead of using the ath0 device directly you need to make a wlan0 device which uses the ath0 device. I think the command line is ifconfig wlan0 create wavelandev ath0 wlanmode (pick from sta hostap adhoc or whatever) see wlan(4) and ifconfig(8), see also the entry dated 20080420 in /usr/src/updating (or in http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/release/8.0.0/UPDATING?revision=199625view=markup) if you dont have a source tree installed. Once thats done, the rest should be as per the handbook i think. Vince ___ 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 ___ 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
Problems with wifi and macbook
I have successfully installed freebsd on my macbook (yay!), but I can't figure out how to make the wifi work. Wired networking works great. I am following the directions here : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html, but I have only got up to section 31.3.3.1, since I can't get past the scanning part. My ifconfig output is attached (can't figure out cutting and pasting in icewm with the single mouse thing). When I try run ifconfig ath0 scan, I get ifconfig: unable to get scan results. My loader.conf is attached to -- I presume that the kernels are loadd, but I can't figure out how to check. I DO see ath0 in the dmesg. Any help is appreciated! msk0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=11aTXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4 ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex,flag0,flag1) status: active ath0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 2290 ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) status: no carrier SNIP loader.conf Description: Binary data ___ 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
