Setting wireless connection

S

Syssx

Hello,im an FreeBSD newbie and i have one question
..i want to install X11 and XFCE DE but i must have internet connection and only internet connection at home home is wireless connection..

I have Belkin F6D4050 v1 USB WLan (Ralink rt2870 drivers..those drivers are included in FreeBSD 8.1 RC as i read here http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=7562
(* 9-CURRENT,
* 8-STABLE, and
* 8.1 beta, RC users
The driver is included in those releases.)

So my question is: How to configure wireless network after FreeBSD install from CD (at command line)

Network authentication: WPA-PSK (WPA Personal)
Data encryption: AES

Thanks in advance,and sorry for my english
 
You need to load the driver for the wireless device in /boot/loader.conf and possibly accept a license agreement.
Look at the first post in the networking section of the forums. There should be a howto there.
 
sossego said:
You need to load the driver for the wireless device in /boot/loader.conf and possibly accept a license agreement.
Look at the first post in the networking section of the forums. There should be a howto there.
Click to expand...

Yes there is howto but not for my chipset...
 
1...load the driver(s)
2...write down the protocol, name, and
password used in the authentication.
3...write, test wpa_supplicant.conf and
if it works edit it into rc.conf
(That is a short version. Took me about two weeks to
get a working wireless connection by trying maybe a
hundred different configurations written into the
file(s).
...3a. search far and wide for a guide (big threads
here that include wpa_supplicant.conf, and if
that fails, guides mentioning it in the internet).

...
Not an expert but that may help.
 
jb_fvwm2 said:
1...load the driver(s)
2...write down the protocol, name, and
password used in the authentication.
3...write, test wpa_supplicant.conf and
if it works edit it into rc.conf
(That is a short version. Took me about two weeks to
get a working wireless connection by trying maybe a
hundred different configurations written into the
file(s).
...3a. search far and wide for a guide (big threads
here that include wpa_supplicant.conf, and if
that fails, guides mentioning it in the internet).

...
Not an expert but that may help.
Click to expand...
Ok..but i didnt found how to load drivers (RT2870)for my wireless card

31.3 Wireless Networking..here i found how to configure network..its easy but now i only need:
1)Load drivers for my wireless card.. (RT2870)

please does anybody know how to load those drivers?...
 
Code: 
kldload if_run
ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev run0
ifconfig wlan0 up scan                               # should list available APs
wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf  # see config below
dhclient wlan0

minimal wpa_supplicant.conf
Code: 
network{
  ssid="myAP"
  psk="Secretpasswd"
}

To bring it up automatically at boot, edit a couple of files

/boot/loader.conf
Code: 
if_run_load="YES"
/etc/rc.conf
Code: 
wlans_run0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
 
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