PC-BSD and CISCO

[T.R Materene]

I have installed the PC-BSD version and can't seem to get wireless up. My hardware is a 350 series Cisco that is recognized by every Linux disto so far. I managed to ping the machine however I could not get the browser to work. Also after using the /stand/sysinstall after a reboot the kernel loading would pause at a ssh prompt and just sit there for what seemed like 10 or fifteen minutes.

Has anyone any insight as to whether the problem is a non compatible CISCO card or more of a misconfiguring . I did read in the docs that only one chipset was useable for wireless. I discount this simply because the 350 series was one of the most reliable and used wireless devices known four or five years ago.

Any thoughts or input would be appreciated.

Tom

[Solarin]

Which driver are you using, the 'an' one?

As for the pinging issue.. sounds to me a bit like you setup the card ok, but forgot to include the default gateway.

[T.R Materene]

Looking at ifconf everything is looking good, still can't use a browser or ping out or in at this time. I reinstalled and have a clean system now with the exception of changing the rc.conf file. Also have lisa running at boot by adding the "YES" option to the startup files, for lisa. It must be something simple like a firewall setting and I haven't figured out where to find it. The listing below is my ifconfig, see if it looks good to you.

an0: flags=8843<UP, BROADCAST, RUNNING, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::240:96ff:fe41:2757%an0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
ether 00:40:96:41:27:57
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
status: associated
ssid wired
stationname FreeBSD
channel 6 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 200
rtsthreshold 200 protmode UNKNOWN txpower 200
wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
wepkey 5:104-bit
plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> mtu 1500
pfsync0: flags+0<> mtu 2020
pflog0: flags=0<> mtu 33208
lo0: flags=8049<UP, LOOPBACK, RUNNING, MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5

[Solarin]

The glaring mistake you seem to have here is that your interface hasn't been allocated an IP address. Do you use DHCP?

If so just:

dhclient an0

Otherwise you'll have to (if you want an IP of 192.1.1.1):

ifconfig an0 inet 192.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

[T.R Materene]

I use a static IP not DCHP, Using a Linksys router. I'll make the change and see if that does it.

Thanks

Tom