On Wednesday, July 10, 2013, Walter Hurry wrote: > 9.1-RELEASE-p4 on amd64. This is a laptop with an Atheros 9280 wireless > chip in a domestic setting with a single router and a cable "modem". > > I have never had to use wireless before, but am now in another room. I > have followed the handbook, and it seems to be working well. One question > though: 'ifconfig -a' shows *two* entries apparently relating to > wireless: ath0 and wlan0. The wlan0 one shows the IP address (fixed, not > DHCP), netmask, ssid and so forth, but the ath0 entry shows only: > > ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290 > ether 0c:ee:e6:80:ed:52 > nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g > status: associated > > Is this how it should be? > > Hi Walter,
Wlan0 is a clone of your wireless network card. So all the IP setup is applied to Wlan0. You will find more information in the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-wireless.html and in rhe ifconfig man page. I hope this will help you. Kind regards, Alexandre _______________________________________________ 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"
