I've finally coerced FreeBSD 5.4 to see my PCMCIA WLAN card (with many thanks to Warner), but it always reports "status: no carrier". I'm attempting to connect to an open WAP that broadcasts it's SSID, so my understanding is that it should be as simple as "ifconfig wi0 ad.dr.es.s netmask 255.255.255.0" or "dhclient wi0", but neither of those work. If I do manually specify an address, then I can ping that address, but I'm not sure if that actually means anything.
I've also been running tcpdump on the DHCP server for that wireless network.
I can see plenty of traffic from the other machines, but absolutely nothing
from the laptop.
My /boot/loader.conf looks like:
hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
hint.apic.0.disabled="1"
hw.cbb.start_memory=0xd800
Is there something else I'm blatantly missing?
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Kirk Strauser
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