Hello, I recently upgraded from bsd 6.4 to bsd 8.0 release ( new install ) and I am having issues getting my wifi to work. Before the upgrade it worked perfectly in 6.4. I am a bit confused as I have read different things about this. The handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html#NETWORK-WIRELESS-AP-BASIC under basic settings says check to see if your device supports host based ap mode by doing
ifconfig wlan0 list caps # ifconfig wlan0 list caps drivercaps=2985cd01<STA,IBSS,HOSTAP,AHDEMO,SHSLOT,SHPREAMBLE,MONITOR,MBSS,WPA1,WPA2,WDS,BGSCAN> Then it says the wireless device can now be put into AP mode by doing: ifconfig wlan0 ssid freebsdap mode 11g mediaopt hostap inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 Which returns: ifconfig: inet: bad value I read some place that you need to put inet before ssid so I tried it with the following: # ifconfig wlan0 inet 10.0.0.1/24 ssid gangsta wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey apasswordhere mode 11g mediaopt hostap Which returns: ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (media): Device not configured If I try to configure it like it was in 6.4 I get another error: ifconfig wlan0 ssid gangsta channel 8 wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey apasswordhere mode 11g mediaopt hostap 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 Which returns: ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (media): Device not configured I know wep is not secure, I am just trying to get it working. At start of the guide it tells you to configure the following in /boot/loader.conf which I did. /boot/loader.conf if_ral_load="YES" wlan_load="YES" wlan_scan_ap_load="YES" wlan_scan_sta_load="YES" wlan_wep_load="YES" wlan_ccmp_load="YES" wlan_Tkip_load="YES" When I run kldstat I see the if_ral is loaded. I don't know if its supposed to show the other modules. kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 9 0xc0400000 b22548 kernel 2 1 0xc0f23000 13e4c if_ral.ko 3 1 0xc357b000 35000 ipl.ko Here is rc.conf check_quotas="NO" gateway_enable="YES" hostname="router.foo.bar" ibcs2_enable="NO" ifconfig_sk0="DHCP" ifconfig_xl0="inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" wlans_ral0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="inet 10.0.0.1/24 ssid gangsta wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey apasswordhere mode 11g mediaopt hostap" ipfilter_enable="YES" ipfilter_rules="/etc/ipf.rules" ipmon_enable="YES" ipmon_flags="-Ds" ipnat_enable="YES" ipnat_rules="/etc/ipnat.rules" Here is ifconfig -a xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8<VLAN_MTU> ether 00:60:97:7f:3e:6c inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active sk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU> ether 00:0c:41:e4:7e:83 inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast 255.255.255.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:14:bf:78:a2:a7 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g status: associated plip0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:14:bf:78:a2:a7 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) status: no carrier ssid gangsta channel 11 (2462 Mhz 11g) country US authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit txpower 0 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS bintval 0 netstat -rn Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire default x.x.x.x UGS 0 35 sk0 x.x.x.x/21 link#2 U 0 0 sk0 x.x.x.x link#2 UHS 0 0 lo0 127.0.0.1 link#5 UH 0 32 lo0 192.168.0.0/24 link#1 U 1 568 xl0 192.168.0.1 link#1 UHS 0 0 lo0 Many thanks in advance!! Eric _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"