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

On Sunday 12 July 2009 20:09:36 Gravisman wrote:
> Gravisman wrote:
> > Sam Leffler-2 wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > My problem is that wlan0 doesn't show up as an interface. Despite having
> > added wlans_zyd0="wlan0" to my rc.conf file, my interfaces are as shown
> > below:

<snip>

> Thanks for the help, but I've solved my own problem. The key for anyone
> else who hits this was...
>
> ifconfig wlan create wlandev zyd0
               ^0

This is what wlans_zyd0="wlan0" is supposed to do, so did you reboot after 
adding this to rc.conf and/or run /etc/rc.d/netif restart?
If so, add rc_debug="YES" to /etc/rc.conf, then run /etc/rc.d/netif restart 
and post output.

-- 
Mel