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Brunsbarth
November 30th, 2008, 13:03
Hi there, I just converted from ubuntu to freebsd - seems to be a good choice so far, BUT: the Broadcom Wlan keeps making trouble... I actually got it "up", but when I ping my router 192.168.2.1, I don't get any response whatsoever... could anyone help me - I am lacking the iwconfig-usability ;)

ifconfig says:

bwi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:1a:73:22:bd:6f
inet6 fe80::21a:73ff:fe22:bd6f%bwi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 192.168.2.102 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
status: no carrier
ssid Leugering channel 5 (2432 Mhz 11g)
authmode OPEN privacy OFF bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS


Greetings, Brunsbarth
danger@
November 30th, 2008, 13:27
status: no carrier


doesn't look like it's up :-)
Brunsbarth
November 30th, 2008, 13:36
hm.. right. But isn't the no carrier thing actually ment for LAN only, not for WLAN? The blue light is illuminated when having done "ifconfig bwi0 up 192.168.2.102 ssid Leugering", though... Any ideas how to fix it?
richardpl
November 30th, 2008, 13:43
Is signal strong, you can see that with ifconfig bwi0 list scan
danger@
November 30th, 2008, 13:50
maybe it isn't associated to any AP?
Brunsbarth
November 30th, 2008, 14:11
1. ifconfig bwi0 list scan returns nothing at all

2. How do I associate an AP in BSD?

By the way: thanks for caring ;)
danger@
November 30th, 2008, 14:13
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html might be a good starting point...

BTW I have zero experience with WLAN on FreeBSD, just guessing here :)
Brunsbarth
November 30th, 2008, 14:46
thanks, didn't find that particular document. I guess I did all the stuff in that tutorial, though, but still: light is on, ping doesn't tell me anything, ifconfig bwi0 list scan doesn't return anything either... Please, anybody - help me ;)
richardpl
December 1st, 2008, 01:20
Maybe radio is off. Is there some buttons, key combinations that put it on.
Mel_Flynn
December 1st, 2008, 11:44
I take it, this is 7.x branch.

Could you:

echo net.wlan.debug=1 >> /etc/sysctl.conf


Then reboot and inspect /var/log/messages. If there's nothing obvious, post everything here.
Also, please make sure your AP allows unencrypted networks.