FreeBSD on laptop can not connect to Internet

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adripillo

Hey all, I have a "new" laptop on my home and decided to install FreeBSD there also. All went fine until I wrote:
Code: 
# portsnap fetch update
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching public key from portsnap.FreeBSD.org... failed.
No mirrors remaning, giving up.
Did I miss something? During installation it found my wireless net and could enter the password for it. I wonder why now it can not connect to the Internet. Thanks in advance.
 
adripillo said:
Hey all, I have a "new" laptop on my home and decided to install FreeBSD there also. All went fine till I write:

Code: 
# portsnap fetch update
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching public key from portsnap.FreeBSD.org... failed.
No mirrors remaning, giving up.

Did I miss something?. During installation It found my wireless net and could enter the password for it.
Wonder why now can not connect to Internet. Thanks in advance.
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If I ping another computer on my home or to the AP it says "No route to host". Can the system be trying to connect using the Ehternet card instead of the Wireless Ethernet?.
 
The installer can use a wired or wireless connection for retrieving distfiles, but does not configure the installed system to use it. Did you configure /etc/rc.conf for networking?
 
wblock@ said:
The installer can use a wired or wireless connection for retrieving distfiles, but does not configure the installed system to use it. Did you configure /etc/rc.conf for networking?
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Nope, I always used it on a LAN with static IP, first time running with wireless. I need to use DHCP, can you give me some example please? Thanks.
 
ShelLuser said:
That is what the FreeBSD handbook is for, if you follow this link you'll get to chapter 12.8 which explains the required steps to setting up your network interface.
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I added this line to the /etc/rc.conf


Code: 
ifconfig_wpi0="DHCP"

But still can not connect.
 
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