Comments on: FreeBSD Wireless – Configuring a wireless interface on FreeBSD 8.1

By: Rhyous

Rhyous — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:20:16 +0000

Here is my final wpa_supplicant.conf

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
update_config=1

network={
        ssid="PrimarySSID"
        psk="Password1"
        proto=RSN
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        pairwise=CCMP
}

network={
        ssid="OtherSSID1"
        psk="passwd1"
        disabled=1
}

network={
        ssid="OtherSSID2"
        key_mgmt=NONE
        disabled=1
}

By: silverlokk

silverlokk — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:53:19 +0000

There you have it, I don't have a wpa_supplicant.conf.

By: Rhyous

Rhyous — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:12:27 +0000

I am not sure. In your wpa_supplicant.conf, is your must common wifi connection NOT set to disabled. I was experiencing something similar and I noticed somehow mine was set to disabled so I had to use the Wifi tool to connect at every logon.

By: silverlokk

silverlokk — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:33:23 +0000

More nice work. I did have trouble with my failover. First off, my WiFi wasn't coming up automatically so I had to drop into a command prompt and ifconfig it up (using wlan0). Next, the wireless wasn't taking over when I unplugged the cable from my Ethernet port. The latter turned out to be a problem with my el-cheapo wireless router, and all I had to do was cycle the power, and things are cool in that regard.

As to my wireless needing a manual ifconfig to bring it up, I added the 'up' parameter to the ifconfig line for wlan0: ifconfig_wlan0="WPA up".

I blush to admit that my access point isn't password protected, for one because I can no longer get into the management page -- but that's kinda off-topic . Would that explain why wlan0 wasn't automatically going up? Was it looking for a WPA-enabled router?

By: Prof.Yeow

Prof.Yeow — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:50:11 +0000

thanks so much!!