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ok... #vi /boot/loader.conf gives Read-only file system. once i added in the above... i found a page recommending to do this to another that had the same problem... mount -rw / vi /boot/loader.conf hit 'i' to enter interactive or insert mode make any desired changes, hit 'esc' to get out of...

no loader.conf in /boot vi /boot/loader.conf gives: new file and is empty I don't think I should be starting a loader.confnew... that doesn't sound right at all??? /boot has: loader loader.4th loader.help loader.rc I am guilty of not working on this today thanks for staying with me...

Ok I will try to respond to posts in order and thanks... Quoting dice: I added as possessive e.g. name of network = Joe Blow's Network and it shows up like that in software and on network list, taking it out didn't make a difference... vi /etc/rc.conf gives: sendmail_enable="NONE"...

That's what it is in most linux distros. When I had it (FreeBSD 9) installed before (before I did a re(fresh)-install) it didn't like it and I have learned FreeBSD boots into csh until you load bash, zsh, others into it. I will try on this install again thanks. \antiprop/

I double/triple checked it and retyped as well. Will do it(try it) again. Thanks for your patience and responses.

ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwi0 ssid my_net up gives: Unmatched'. therefore, dhclient wlan gives: ifconfig: interface wlan does not exist ls /usr/sbin wlandebug wlconfig wpa_cli wpa_passphrase wpa_supplicant none of which are any help I am going back to man iwi to see if I can find...

newbie here, did a new install of FreeBSD 9 on older dell inspiron, I need to use an open wifi connection to get networking up and running, I connect to it all the time but I don't know the person. It's an open network daily on my available networks list. Install said it completed fine but...