tip for wifi 'no carrier'

C

curious

Freebsd FreeBSD 9 wifi:

Hi all, sorry if this is posted in the wrong area. Just a tip: I accidentally discovered after much head-scratching trying to get my Intel 5100 AGN [shiloh] card to connect to my wireless router (DHCP). Driver and firmware loaded, ifconfig showed wlan0 was UP, associated to network but
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status: no carrier
dhclient wlan0 claimed
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no link.....giving up
I even flushed routes and bge0 down (my trusty ethernet). Nothing worked, until I physically disconnected the cat5 cable and then /etc/rc.d/netif restart (for the 50th time) Instant connect. Not sure why this is. Hopefully this helps someone somewhere.
 
Some laptops have a BIOS setting that disables the wireless when there's a wired connection.
 
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