Hi
1st time poster and freeBSD so pleas be gentle
I've recently installed freebsd 8 on an old laptop with a linksys wifi card which I'm struggling to set up using the guide http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-wireless.html. My network is configured to WPA encryption.
From searching around it looks like I need to use the included broadcom drivers, following the guide I've set up my loader.conf file as :
I'm unsure I'll need the 2nd line but have added it in a wild attempt to resolve the issue.
So, I'm now at the section titled "How to find access points", using the guide and manual page I've tryed -
Leading to the error -
SIOCIFCREATE2: device not configured.
Seems fairly obvious the device hasn't loaded for some reason although I don't see what could have been missed out.
Sticking to the guide I've initially left out the lines below as it claims they are included automatically with the wireless driver :
Figuring it can't hurt any I have now changed the loader.conf to -
On booting I see the message dc0: linkstate changed to down. I'm reasnably sure this wasn't present before the above change, although I'm unsure what it refers to.
The guide does say that loading should give something along the lines of -
In my case, I expect ath0 would be replaced with bwi0 or something similar, although the text flys by too quick to really inspect this.
Spent a few days googling like mad on this issue, if anyone has any tips or pointers I'd really appreciate it.
thanks.
1st time poster and freeBSD so pleas be gentle
I've recently installed freebsd 8 on an old laptop with a linksys wifi card which I'm struggling to set up using the guide http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-wireless.html. My network is configured to WPA encryption.
From searching around it looks like I need to use the included broadcom drivers, following the guide I've set up my loader.conf file as :
Code:
if_bwi_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"
wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
wlan_tkip_load="YES"
I'm unsure I'll need the 2nd line but have added it in a wild attempt to resolve the issue.
So, I'm now at the section titled "How to find access points", using the guide and manual page I've tryed -
Code:
ifconfig wlan create wlandev bwi0
and
ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev bwi0
Leading to the error -
SIOCIFCREATE2: device not configured.
Seems fairly obvious the device hasn't loaded for some reason although I don't see what could have been missed out.
Sticking to the guide I've initially left out the lines below as it claims they are included automatically with the wireless driver :
Code:
wlan_scan_ap_load="YES"
wlan_scan_sta_load="YES"
Figuring it can't hurt any I have now changed the loader.conf to -
Code:
if_bwi_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"
wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
wlan_tkip_load="YES"
wlan_scan_ap_load="YES"
wlan_scan_sta_load="YES"
On booting I see the message dc0: linkstate changed to down. I'm reasnably sure this wasn't present before the above change, although I'm unsure what it refers to.
The guide does say that loading should give something along the lines of -
Code:
ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0x88000000-0x8800ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus1
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: AR2413 mac 7.9 RF2413 phy 4.5
In my case, I expect ath0 would be replaced with bwi0 or something similar, although the text flys by too quick to really inspect this.
Spent a few days googling like mad on this issue, if anyone has any tips or pointers I'd really appreciate it.
thanks.