Re: setting up wlan with vap - wlan0 doesn't appear

Gravisman wrote:
> I just got an iogear usb wireless adapter to add to my machine which
> previously only ran a wired interface. After poking around I now see that
> wireless setup works significantly different in CURRENT than it did in
> previous releases. I haven't found too terribly much on google, but the
> basic idea seems to be that I have to setup a wlans interface in rc.conf.
> So, the following is what I added to rc.conf, which is consistent with the
> examples I've found, including the one in /usr/src/UPDATING.
>
> wlans_zyd0="wlan0"
> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
>
> I see zyd0 interface in ifconfig, but even with these lines added to
> rc.conf, I'm not getting any wlan0 interface, and I can't list scanned
> networks on zyd0. Any idea what I'm missing?
>   
zyd0 is not where you list networks; if you create wlan0 then you want

ifconfig wlan0 list scan

to see the set of ap's found during a scan.

Try showing the output of ifconfig for starters.  Since you've enabled 
WPA I'd ask if you've created a wpa_supplicant.conf file for it?  w/o 
that you won't get WPA setup.

I assume all this stuff is in the documentation.

    Sam