Unable to gain wireless access.

Help with setting up network cards, including WiFi cards.
wb7odyfred
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Re: setup your wifi iwm0 device on FreeBSD

Post by wb7odyfred »

Clicking on the NetworkMgr icon, should have automatically setup your Intel Wifi PCI device.
The 3 files to edit were /boot/loader.conf /etc/rc.conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

Read this FreeBSD forum post for details on various edits to those 3 files.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/unab ... 265.67528/
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/commen ... ading_iwm/
https://github.com/erikarn/iwm

FreeBSD Manual Pages for iwm device
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwm

That is interesting. I checked the link you sent me and it seems like they changed the firmware name, so while the man page points to iwm7265fw_load="YES" the actual name is iwm7265Dfw_load="YES".
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/free ... ame.64079/

from https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/ifco ... lue.75732/

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ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev iwm0 regdomain FCC country AU ssid TPW4G_1A785F
or ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev iwm0
Change values for ETSI , DE , Wellensalat to match your needs.

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  ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev iwm0 regdomain row country AU ssid TPW4G_1A785F
https://docs.freebsd.org/en_US.ISO8859- ... uick-start Chapter 32 Wireless Setup


Fred Finster forum posts with details of commands to use:
Edimax EW-7811un Wifi USB nano dongle; 10.3 & 11.0 setup - Forums
https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=526

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Usbconfig list
Rtl8188ce chipset
https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=570

I think you are using pci Intel chipset though, using that iwm driver. What are your vendor and product Ids.

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pciconf -lv
kldstat 





reference my forum posts as example of commands to use to debug WIFI problems.
https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=570
https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=526
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