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Re: wireless anyone?



On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org> wrote:
> Is someone able to test that wireless works when using latest
> freebsd-utils (>= 8.2+ds1-1) from sid?  I.e. that fixing #601803 was
> enough to get a working wireless setup.

Not so much here.  Here's the pudding:
root@pleco:~# aptitude show freebsd-utils
Package: freebsd-utils
Essential: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 8.2+ds1-2
Priority: required
Section: utils
Maintainer: GNU/kFreeBSD Maintainers <debian-bsd@lists.debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 905 k
Depends: libbsd0 (>= 0.2.0), libc0.1 (>= 2.10), libcam0 (>= 8.2), libgcc1 (>=
         1:4.1.1), libgeom1 (>= 7.0), libkiconv4 (>= 7.0), libkvm0 (>= 7.0),
         libsbuf0 (>= 7.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0), lsb-base
         (>= 3.0-6)
Suggests: kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, freebsd-hackedutils (>= 6.1-3)
Conflicts: inetutils-tools (<= 2:1.4.3+20051212-4)
Replaces: freebsd-hackedutils (<= 6.1-3)
Description: FreeBSD utilities needed for GNU/kFreeBSD
 This package provides FreeBSD utilities needed for GNU/kFreeBSD.

> As described in the FreeBSD handbook [1], and assuming your kernel
> detected a wireless-capable device whose name is "ath0", the following
> commands would suffice:
>
> # ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0

So here's what I get running the above:
root@pleco:~# ifconfig ath0
ath0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
        ether 0:40:96:a3:24:dd
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
        status: no carrier
root@pleco:~# ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0
ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Bad address

Need more info?  It looks like the wireless support is still... not quite there?
-- 
Zac Slade
krakrjak@gmail.com


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