Re: seeing a wireless router when building a 7.2 system

2009-09-26 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Henry Olyer wrote: I have read all about the WPA sub-system;  I've also setup my /boot/loader.conf and /etc/rc.conf files, correctly. Except one small detail... ifconfig ath0 up scan never returns. And when I do a: ifconfig ath0 It tells me I don't have a carrier.

Re: seeing a wireless router when building a 7.2 system

2009-09-26 Thread Henry Olyer
I have read all about the WPA sub-system; I've also setup my /boot/loader.conf and /etc/rc.conf files, correctly. Except one small detail... ifconfig ath0 up scan never returns. And when I do a: ifconfig ath0 It tells me I don't have a carrier. I know the wireless router is working because

seeing a wireless router when building a 7.2 system

2009-09-22 Thread Henry Olyer
I am putting up 7.2 and I am attempting to use a wireless router. How do I tell the 7.2 configurator to use my router, wirelessly? --jg I am using an Atheros chip-set, so I am not expecting trouble. I just need FBSD to see my system. I know my wireless 'name'. What do I do

Re: seeing a wireless router when building a 7.2 system

2009-09-22 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Henry Olyer wrote: I am putting up 7.2 and I am attempting to use a wireless router. How do I tell the 7.2 configurator to use my router, wirelessly? --jg I am using an Atheros chip-set, so I am not expecting trouble. I just need FBSD to see my system. I know my

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-27 Thread Mel
correctly at a previous location. Over here it works, but have no need for it anymore, since a FreeBSD wireless router is doing it's job. There are many advantages of using a full-blown computer for (wireless) routing/nat/firewall, most notably the diagnostics that are available. Our FreeBSD

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-27 Thread Corey Chandler
Roger Olofsson wrote: Corey Chandler skrev: Nerius Landys wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. Good man! I will need to figure out how to configure my standalone wireless

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-27 Thread Corey Chandler
Mel wrote: On Monday 22 December 2008 14:48:52 Corey Chandler wrote: Failing that, the Linksys WRT54GL isn't a half bad unit. Yes it is a half bad unit. Absolutely-- if you're running out of the box firmware. I use DD-WRT or Tomato specifically to get around the issues you

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-27 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:27:56 -0800 Corey Chandler li...@sequestered.net wrote: Mel wrote: On Monday 22 December 2008 14:48:52 Corey Chandler wrote: Failing that, the Linksys WRT54GL isn't a half bad unit. Yes it is a half bad unit. Absolutely-- if you're running out of

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-27 Thread Roger Olofsson
Corey Chandler skrev: Roger Olofsson wrote: Corey Chandler skrev: Nerius Landys wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. Good man! I will need to figure out how to configure

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-27 Thread Mario Lobo
On Saturday 27 December 2008 16:49:54 Roger Olofsson wrote: Corey Chandler skrev: Roger Olofsson wrote: Corey Chandler skrev: Nerius Landys wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 04:31:56PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. That's probably the easiest way. I already have. Also I don't know too much about

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-23 Thread Roger Olofsson
Nerius Landys skrev: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. I will need to figure out how to configure my standalone wireless router to pass everything through to the internal LAN that I

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-23 Thread Roger Olofsson
Corey Chandler skrev: Nerius Landys wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. Good man! I will need to figure out how to configure my standalone wireless router to pass everything

Wireless router?

2008-12-22 Thread Nerius Landys
no experience with wireless networks. I have a couple of computers that are wireless-ready (a laptop and a Playstation 3 that I won in a raffle). Is it possible to somehow add some hardware to my FreeBSD router PC to make it into a wireless router? What kind of hardware would I install? What is it called

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-22 Thread Mario Lobo
for my wireless network at home, would this be possible? Or is DHCP the way to go (I hesitate at the thought of configuring a DHCP server). Another way to go is to hook up a standalone wireless router appliance to my FreeBSD machine's network interface (one of the interfaces). I already have

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-22 Thread Mario Lobo
hardware to my FreeBSD router PC to make it into a wireless router? What kind of hardware would I install? What is it called? The PC only has PCI slots, can you recommend a brand and model of wireless server equiptment if such a thing exists? Would a normal wireless card suffice? What

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-22 Thread Manolis Kiagias
. I really have no experience with wireless networks. I have a couple of computers that are wireless-ready (a laptop and a Playstation 3 that I won in a raffle). Is it possible to somehow add some hardware to my FreeBSD router PC to make it into a wireless router? What kind of hardware would I

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-22 Thread Roland Smith
it into a wireless router? Yes. What kind of hardware would I install? What is it called? Wireless card. The PC only has PCI slots, can you recommend a brand and model of wireless server equiptment if such a thing exists? Would a normal wireless card suffice? Yes What model should I get? Now

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-22 Thread Roger Olofsson
. I really have no experience with wireless networks. I have a couple of computers that are wireless-ready (a laptop and a Playstation 3 that I won in a raffle). Is it possible to somehow add some hardware to my FreeBSD router PC to make it into a wireless router? What kind of hardware would I

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-22 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: snip So in a nutshell, I have a wired FreeBSD router with multiple ethernet jacks at home, and I want to extend it to include wireless network. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. If you have another PCI slot

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-22 Thread Corey Chandler
to include wireless. I really have no experience with wireless networks. I have a couple of computers that are wireless-ready (a laptop and a Playstation 3 that I won in a raffle). Is it possible to somehow add some hardware to my FreeBSD router PC to make it into a wireless router? What kind

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-22 Thread Nerius Landys
Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. I will need to figure out how to configure my standalone wireless router to pass everything through to the internal LAN that I already have. Also I

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-22 Thread Corey Chandler
Nerius Landys wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. Good man! I will need to figure out how to configure my standalone wireless router to pass everything through to the internal

Re: Secure Wireless Router using FreeBSD ...

2007-10-19 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Taking this to questions@, since it feels like a more appropriate place than [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 19 October 2007 08:27:02 Marc G. Fournier wrote: Within my Linksys, I can restrict wireless to MAC addresses, as well as using stuff like WPA ... quick search on google, and I found:

RE: Setting upFreeBSD with D-Link Wireless Router

2005-02-16 Thread Timothy Radigan
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rizazoe Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 12:37 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Setting upFreeBSD with D-Link Wireless Router I'm newbie and I'm trying to set up a test network than isn't connected to Internet on FreeBSD 4.7 I was wondering if it is possible

Re: Setting upFreeBSD with D-Link Wireless Router

2005-02-16 Thread Dustin Wilhoit
for 802.1x security using D-Link 624 Wireless Router. 1 more stupid question do I need a wireless NIC for the FreeBSD box? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Setting upFreeBSD with D-Link Wireless Router

2005-02-15 Thread rizazoe
I'm newbie and I'm trying to set up a test network than isn't connected to Internet on FreeBSD 4.7 I was wondering if it is possible to set up my FreeBSD 4.7 as a authentication server for 802.1x security using D-Link 624 Wireless Router. 1 more stupid question do I need a wireless NIC

RE: Basic Info on Wireless Router Installation and Performance

2005-01-29 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Perry Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 11:33 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Basic Info on Wireless Router Installation and Performance Ted, What linebacker

Re: Basic Info on Wireless Router Installation and Performance

2005-01-28 Thread Bob Perry
On (01/21/05 22:41), Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: From: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Basic Info on Wireless Router Installation and Performance Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:41:41 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO

RE: Basic Info on Wireless Router Installation and Performance

2005-01-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Perry Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 12:37 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Basic Info on Wireless Router Installation and Performance Just joined an ISP that has agreed to provide

Basic Info on Wireless Router Installation and Performance

2005-01-20 Thread Bob Perry
to sync-up with the DSL. The options, thus far, are to fix the inside phone wiring or install a wireless router. I know little about wireless routers but have started some research and will continue. However, thought I would also touch base with the mailing list to see what information/experience

Re: Basic Info on Wireless Router Installation and Performance

2005-01-20 Thread Brian McCann
, a DLink 802.11g pack with a wireless router and PCMCIA NIC, with their Super G or whatever it's called technology, for 98 bux...something to consider. --Brian On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:37:07 -0500, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just joined an ISP that has agreed to provide residential DSL

Re: Basic Info on Wireless Router Installation and Performance

2005-01-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
apartment is able to sync-up with the DSL. The options, thus far, are to fix the inside phone wiring or install a wireless router. I know little about wireless routers but have started some research and will continue. However, thought I would also touch base with the mailing list to see what

Re: Basic Info on Wireless Router Installation and Performance

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Henson
phone jacks in my apartment is able to sync-up with the DSL. The options, thus far, are to fix the inside phone wiring or install a wireless router. I know little about wireless routers but have started some research and will continue. However, thought I would also touch base with the mailing list

Problems connecting to the internet through a wireless router

2004-05-24 Thread John Murdock
I have installed FreeBSD succesfully on my Gateway M500 laptop. The only problem I have is that my laptop connects to the internet through a wireless router. My wireless card is working fine on the laptop and I can succesfully ping the router, but when I load up a webbrowser I get a Cannot

Re: Problems connecting to the internet through a wireless router

2004-05-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 24 May 2004 11:48:02 -0500 John Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed FreeBSD succesfully on my Gateway M500 laptop. The only problem I have is that my laptop connects to the internet through a wireless router. My wireless card is working fine on the laptop and I can

Problems connecting to the internet through a wireless router

2004-05-24 Thread phest0r
I created the /etc/resolv.conf file and now it works. Amazing how simple that was. Thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]