Hello.
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I'm very new to FreeBSD and finally have decided it's time to migrate! However, wifi connection (or even wired connection!) is the trickiest part for me. Worst of all when wifi is down it's impossible to search for a solution on internet. I had the same trouble on Linux with NetworkManager (which sucks more than anything in the world).
My laptop's Wireless Hardware (Lenovo) which happens to be Intel Centerino is not recognized by the shipped driver (iwn or iwi I think?) and that's because Lenovo and HP change their code of the wireless catd. So I have to recompile the driver to include this card in iwn/iwi and submit a patch, but again, these stuff are not easy on a new operating system when you have no connection.
I have installed FreeBSD on my HP too. good news is, it recognizes both wireless card and Ethernet. The problem is I can not get wpa_supplicant working!
The problem:
During installation, there is one stage: configuring network connections. It scans for all available networks and allows to easily configure them (IP Address, gateway, ...) and I was wondering if I could run the same network manager after Installation?
If I can get wifi working, solution to the rest of my problems/questions whatever they are I'm pretty sure can be found on internet.
You can skip this part:
I'm very new to FreeBSD and finally have decided it's time to migrate! However, wifi connection (or even wired connection!) is the trickiest part for me. Worst of all when wifi is down it's impossible to search for a solution on internet. I had the same trouble on Linux with NetworkManager (which sucks more than anything in the world).
My laptop's Wireless Hardware (Lenovo) which happens to be Intel Centerino is not recognized by the shipped driver (iwn or iwi I think?) and that's because Lenovo and HP change their code of the wireless catd. So I have to recompile the driver to include this card in iwn/iwi and submit a patch, but again, these stuff are not easy on a new operating system when you have no connection.
I have installed FreeBSD on my HP too. good news is, it recognizes both wireless card and Ethernet. The problem is I can not get wpa_supplicant working!
The problem:
During installation, there is one stage: configuring network connections. It scans for all available networks and allows to easily configure them (IP Address, gateway, ...) and I was wondering if I could run the same network manager after Installation?
If I can get wifi working, solution to the rest of my problems/questions whatever they are I'm pretty sure can be found on internet.
