Re: FreeBSD wireless difficulty
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 06:34:55 -0500 Douglas Korinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did sit in front o' the 'puter and offer us these pearls of wisdom: Hello, I had been having difficulty recently with getting my fbsd 4.9 machine to connect to my linksys home wireless router and because of the problem, had to upgrade to fbsd 5.2.1 and noticed more activity out of my wireless card. The computer is a Toshiba Satellite 2405-S221 with a Avaya Wireless PCMCIA card using the wi drivers to run it. I'm able to associate with the router at home and am able to ping it without a problem but I can not browse webpages and the like. I also have bsd-airtools installed and have used dstumbler, the only problem being is that the program doesn't see my wireless card. Any tips or suggestions? Doug Just at a glance is the router actually preforming NAT for you ? Are you getting an IP address via DHCP or static? If you use the dstumbler command can you see your own WLAN? First pass on your mail suggests that maybe you can connect to the network but cannot get out of it. Personally I use dstumbler to get the network associated then I need to config by hand and add a default route. I use fixed dns servers so that is never an issue but perhaps your situation is different. Can you talk me a bit through the steps you take to be able to ping your wireless router? HTH LukeK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD wireless difficulty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 34 Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 06:34:55 -0500 From: Douglas Korinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD wireless difficulty To: FreeBSD Help [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hello, I had been having difficulty recently with getting my fbsd 4.9 machine to connect to my linksys home wireless router and because of the problem, had to upgrade to fbsd 5.2.1 and noticed more activity out of my wireless card. The computer is a Toshiba Satellite 2405-S221 with a Avaya Wireless PCMCIA card using the wi drivers to run it. I'm able to associate with the router at home and am able to ping it without a problem but I can not browse webpages and the like. I also have bsd-airtools installed and have used dstumbler, the only problem being is that the program doesn't see my wireless card. Any tips or suggestions? Doug ICQ : 26096369 AIM : itss0lidstate - I don't know if the atuwi driver supports your WLAN card, but you might want to check it. You schould check it at www.vitsch.net/bsd/atuwi/ I hope you will be able to fix it -- Frank Staals - The Greatest pleasure in life is doing things people say you cannot do - Walter Bagehot - With questions or comment mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD wireless difficulty
On Saturday 10 July 2004 10:46 am, Frank Staals wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 34 Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 06:34:55 -0500 From: Douglas Korinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD wireless difficulty To: FreeBSD Help [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Hello, I had been having difficulty recently with getting my fbsd 4.9 machine to connect to my linksys home wireless router and because of the problem, had to upgrade to fbsd 5.2.1 and noticed more activity out of my wireless card. The computer is a Toshiba Satellite 2405-S221 with a Avaya Wireless PCMCIA card using the wi drivers to run it. I'm able to associate with the router at home and am able to ping it without a problem but I can not browse webpages and the like. I also have bsd-airtools installed and have used dstumbler, the only problem being is that the program doesn't see my wireless card. Any tips or suggestions? First and foremost, always check the FreeBSD site for hardware compatibility. Once that done, and your sure your pcmcia is supported, let's move on. For me to get my NetGear working, here were my steps. 1. edit /etc/rc.conf If static - ifconfig_wi0=inet (some IP) netmask (some netmask) defaultrouter=(some IP) If dynamic - ifconfig_wi0=DHCP defaultrouter=(some IP) 2. Create a file in /etc called start_if.wi0 ifconfig wi0 ssid (some SSID) wepmode on wepkey 0x(some wepkey) 3. Ensure your WAP is using WEP AND if you are allowing only devices with added MAC addies, ensure you put in the mac addy of your wireless nic. 4. Lastly - ensure your firewall rules reflect the correct nic IE: oif=wi0 (or whatever your variable is for the interface, if used) -- Best regards, Chris -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ClamAV virus dat updated: Sat Jul 10 2004 at 03:02:53 daily.cvd is up to date (version: 400, sigs: 778, f-level: 2, builder: tkojm) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
