On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Atheer Elobadi<atheer.elob...@gmail.com> wrote: > output from 'ifconfig ath0': > > ath0: flags=8843<UP, BROADCAST, RUNNING, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu > 1500 > ether "00:19:7d:be:8c:65 > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless thernet autoselect (autoselect) > status: no carrier > ssid "" channel 13 (2472 Mhz 11g) > authmode open privacy OFF txpower 31.5 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan > bgscanintvl 300 mgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11g 7 roam: rate11g 5 > protmode CTS burst bintval 0 > > when 'ifconfig ath0 authmode wpa' : > ieee80211_load_module: load the wlan_xauth module by hand for now. > ifcondif: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument > > i tried to 'kldload wlan_xauth' then 'ifconfig ath0 authmode wpa': (i don't > know if this is necessary)
Ideally, it should load any dependent modules. > then 'ifconfig ath0' : > > ath0: flags=8843<UP, BROADCAST, RUNNING, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu > 1500 > ether "00:19:7d:be:8c:65 > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless thernet autoselect (autoselect) > status: no carrier > ssid "" channel 13 (2472 Mhz 11g) > authmode 802.1x privacy MIXED deftxkey UNDEF txpower 31.5 bmiss 7 > scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscan bgscanintvl 300 mgscanidle 250 > roam:rssi11g 7 > roam: rate11g 5 protmode CTS burst bintval 0 > I hate asking this, because it shouldn't "fix" problems -- it only masks what is underlying -- but, when was your last reboot? With ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP" in rc.conf, this will automatically start wpa_supplicant. Before rebooting, you could also try: /etc/rc.d/netif restart; dhclient ath0 -- Glen Barber _______________________________________________ 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"