DWL-G122, rev B1 USB-WLAN-Stick

[as02011961]

Hello to all,
I installed PCBSD the first time on my PC 3 days ago. Since I am an experienced but frustrated LINUX user I am looking for an alternative OS not beginning with the letter "W". With LINUX I had more or less problems with my above mentioned USB-WLAN-Stick depending on what distribution I tried. Frustrating was that only few distributions were able to correctly detect the WLAN-stick but no distribution was able to use this stick with WPA-Encryption. I tried hard but failed.

Now, how big are the chances with the actual version of PCBSD to detect and to set up my beloved WLAN-stick DWL-G122, rev B1 with WPA to bring me safely and relaxed into the pleasure of surfing in the internet and mailing my friends.

Waiting for useful hints...

Andreas

[dracheflieger]

Welcome to the forums Andreas!

I used one of these with WPA by following the instructions in the FreeBSD Handbook but it would cause my computer to reboot on a sustained download. This very well could be a hardware conflict with that USB stick and my hardware. Just be sure that I was able to talk using WPA with a Linksys WRT54GL

[as02011961]

Hello again,
thanks for the hint regarding WPA to the instructions in the FreeBSD Handbook. After trying and trying I was neither able to use my USB-WLAN-stick nor to configure my little home network correctly. Perhaps because of a lack of understanding what really is to be done.

Now, in detail:

1. My DSL Router:
I use an AVM FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN-Router. My SSID is "XXXXXXWLAN", I use the channel 6, and for encryption I use WPA-PSK with the key "XXXXXXXX". The router is set to the address 192.168.178.1 by default.

2. My PC-Desktop
Some old PC with Celeron 400 MHz, and 392 MB RAM. For the reason to have a wireless network I use the USB-WLAN-stick DWL-G122, rev. B1 (D-Link)

After booting my PC with PCBSD (Windows 98SE is on another partition of my harddisk only for the reason to have a WLAN WPA-PSK-encrypted connection to the Internet) I find the USB-stick detected as ural0. So far so good. The configuration with the network configuration tool of PCBSD failed because there is only given the possibility of WEP-encryption. I think there has to be done a lot of handwork.

If anyone could tell me what to do step by step to have a usable USB-WLAN-stick at boottime I would be very happy. I am not good enough in configuring wpa_supplicant and all necessary boot scripts for myself to have a well structured network configuration.

Perhaps there is the possibility to load a complete configuration file at bootime consisting of all above mentioned personal network parameters. But how should the content of such a configuration file look like.

Please help me asap. Perhaps my next post in this forum will be done via PCBSD.

Thanks for understanding a hard working but not yet successful being new BSD member.

Andreas