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I just got a macbook pro, so I decided to put FreeBSD on my old Dell 600m to play around with. Everything's going pretty well so far, except for wireless. I tried reading the man pages and the FreeBSD handbook, and put the following lines in /boot/loader.conf: if_ipw_load="YES" legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 wlan_load="YES" firmware_load="YES" ipw_bss_load="YES" ipw_ibss_load="YES" ipw_monitor_load="YES" Unfortunately, Dell's BIOS sucks, and I can't verify that I have an ipw wireless card, but I'm pretty sure that's the one. During boot, there were no messages about ipw. I did a "less /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep ipw" just to make sure. I ran "ifconfig ipw0 up" and it tells me that the ipw0 interface does not exist. Any ideas? Is there anyway to verify that loader.conf is actually being loaded?
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ifconfig -a doesn't show ipw either, nor is it an option in sysinstall. After looking at that guide it seems I was trying to load the ipw module when what I actually wanted was the iwi module. Haven't verified that everything works correctly yet, but at least it seems to be loading the module. Thanks. Edit: Also, a dumb question, what does it mean for a device to be "up"? Is it not up by default after being loaded? minute fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Jul 9, 2008 |
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Okay I added the line ifconfig_iwi0="ssid klinksys wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:0x<40-bit hex> DHCP" to my /etc/rc.conf. When I rebooted I got: DHCPREQUEST on iwi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPDISCOVER on iwi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on iwi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on iwi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 DHCPDISCOVER on iwi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 DHCPDISCOVER on iwi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19 DHCPDISCOVER on iwi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 No DHCPOFFERS received. I'm pretty sure the hexkey is right, as I tried it on my macbook, but I'm not sure about the weptxkey. I tried the 104-bit version of the wepkey and it didn't work either. Am I missing anything? Edit: drat it I'm so confused. The man pages say that the WEP key is either 5 or 13 characters? The passphrase I chose is neither of these...? minute fucked around with this message at 07:26 on Jul 9, 2008 |
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Jul 9, 2008 07:15
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Yep, it's the right device. It's loading correctly, and I can scan for access points just fine. Right now, I'm just confused about WEP keys. Apparently I have to give a 5 byte or 13 byte key, but the one I chose when I set up the router is 10 bytes. I'm not really sure how that's supposed to work.
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Jul 10, 2008 02:17
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edit: nm
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