Re: Setting up atheros (168c:001c) wireless NIC in FreeBSD

From: Paul B. Mahol <onemda_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:11:17 +0200
On 9/22/08, Ashish Shukla ************ ***************
<wahjava.ml_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just built and installed recently checked out kernel and world. But
> this time, wpa_supplicant is able to detect my access point and
> associate it for a moment. But thats it.
>
> ----8<----8<----
> % ifconfig wlan0
> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether 00:1f:3a:1a:50:b3
>         inet6 fe80::21f:3aff:fe1a:50b3%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet DS/1Mbps mode 11g
>         status: associated
>         ssid 18-B-PARVATIYA channel 6 (2437 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:1e:2a:76:f4:60
>         regdomain 103 indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON
>         deftxkey UNDEF txpower 16 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl
> 300
>         bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme burst
>         roaming MANUAL
> ---->8---->8----
>
> Though it shows associated but I'm not able to ping any other nodes on

Why? You got some errors when using ping(1)?

ifconfig output doesnt have inet, netmask and broadcast configured so
pinging will not work anyway.
Received on Mon Sep 22 2008 - 20:11:18 UTC

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