setting up wlan with vap - wlan0 doesn't appear

[Gravisman]

Gravisman wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Sam Leffler-2 wrote:
>> 
>> Gravisman wrote:
>>> I just got an iogear usb wireless adapter to add to my machine which
>>> previously only ran a wired interface. After poking around I now see
>>> that
>>> wireless setup works significantly different in CURRENT than it did in
>>> previous releases. I haven't found too terribly much on google, but the
>>> basic idea seems to be that I have to setup a wlans interface in
>>> rc.conf.
>>> So, the following is what I added to rc.conf, which is consistent with
>>> the
>>> examples I've found, including the one in /usr/src/UPDATING.
>>>
>>> wlans_zyd0="wlan0"
>>> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
>>>
>>> I see zyd0 interface in ifconfig, but even with these lines added to
>>> rc.conf, I'm not getting any wlan0 interface, and I can't list scanned
>>> networks on zyd0. Any idea what I'm missing?
>>>   
>> zyd0 is not where you list networks; if you create wlan0 then you want
>> 
>> ifconfig wlan0 list scan
>> 
>> to see the set of ap's found during a scan.
>> 
>> Try showing the output of ifconfig for starters.  Since you've enabled 
>> WPA I'd ask if you've created a wpa_supplicant.conf file for it?  w/o 
>> that you won't get WPA setup.
>> 
>> 
> 
> My problem is that wlan0 doesn't show up as an interface. Despite having
> added wlans_zyd0="wlan0" to my rc.conf file, my interfaces are as shown
> below:
> 
> nassy# ifconfig
> msk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         options=118<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4>
>         ether 00:13:d4:07:c7:2e
>         inet 10.0.1.199 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.1.255
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex,flag0,flag1>)
>         status: active
> fwe0: flags=8902<BROADCAST,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>         ether 02:11:d8:37:35:aa
>         ch 1 dma -1
> fwip0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         lladdr 0.11.d8.0.0.37.35.aa.a.2.ff.fe.0.0.0.0
> plip0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>         options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
>         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 
>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
> zyd0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>         ether 00:21:79:c2:44:82
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>         status: no carrier
> 
> As you can see, there is no wlan0. So, what might I be missing to actually
> get wlan0 setup? Everything I've found just mentions the rc.conf stuff,
> which I've done.
> 
> 

Thanks for the help, but I've solved my own problem. The key for anyone else
who hits this was...

ifconfig wlan create wlandev zyd0
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