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southpaw63119

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Wireless Network -- FreeBSD 9.0
« on: November 17, 2011, 09:40:16 PM »
I decided to try out the FreeBSD operating system, so I originally installed it in a VirtualBox machine and found that I kind of liked it (despite having to wait so long to compile things and being unable to figure out how to use pkg_add).
Now I am trying to get a FreeBSD system set up on my desktop, but I cannot get the wireless card to work quite right.

I need to connect to a PEAP authenticated network.
The wireless card is D-Link DWA-140 REV B, which means that it uses the rt2870 chipset...
The version of FreeBSD is FreeBSD 9.0 RC2.

Any help would be much appreciated--I've tried reading through a few things, and only came out more confused.
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Re: Wireless Network -- FreeBSD 9.0
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2011, 11:32:45 AM »
Here are the contents of my /boot/loader.conf file:

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if_run_load="YES"
runfw_load="YES"

And here are the contents of my /etc/rc.conf file:

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hostname="WTBSD"
sshd_enable="YES"
ntpd_enable="NO"
wlans_run0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="ssid PurpleNet DHCP"

When I run ifconfig, information does appear for wlan0, but I have not been able to figure out how to set it up to work with a PEAP network...
This is why we can't have nice things.