Your right and I am sorry. I have a Atheros AR9285 wireless card. The install freebsd 8.1 sees the card. I set the card up as follows
Code:
my /boot/loader.conf
if_ath_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"
wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
wlan_tkip_load="YES"
I then made the file
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and put the information from
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-wireless.html
Code:
network={
ssid="freebsdap"
psk="freebsdmall"
}
I then edited my
/etc/rc.conf like the
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-wireless.html says
Code:
wlans_ath0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
So then when I reboot with this config the wpa information does not get picked up in ifconfig under ssid it says ""
So then I tried
wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
(sorry I don't remember the output and then I try
dhclient wlan0
and it sometimes says no link or it says DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 over and over until it timesout.
So that was before I made the windows driver. Below is how and after I made the Windows driver
When I made the driver I used ndisgen and it created the mydriver_sys.ko I then k
ldload ./mydriver_sys.ko
(I downloaded the windows driver from dell support site)
Then I added it to my
/boot/loader.conf
and commented out the
and rebooted.
after reboot (which I know I don't have to do but I am new to freebsd I don't know the commands) I ifconfig and the ssid had my id in it so I then pinged the gateway and it worked so then I did the download of the binaries.
I installed xorg then rebooted kde3 then rebooted and I ran
echo "echo "exec startkde" > ~/.xinitrc" to start up in kde3 ,
and then I installed kde4 I rebooted and then I ran
e
cho "exec /usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde" > ~/.xinitrc to start up in kde4 once I typed startx.
After I started in kde4 I then tried to open konsole but it kept on crashing so then I opened up another tty and tried to install firefox35 that is when the network went down which I cannot get it back up for more then a few seconds.
It is acting like it did before I loaded the windows driver like it went back to the native bsd driver. I went back and double checked the above conf files and nothing had changed.
If you want more information I am at work right now and can get more information when I am at home at the computer.