Change for the worse in rsu wireless driver
Thomas Mueller
mueller6724 at bellsouth.net
Wed Jun 11 03:41:39 UTC 2014
from Adrian Chadd:
> Buy a mini-pcie atheros wifi card.
How do I know this would work with FreeBSD and/or NetBSD?
I could switch the hard drives between the two computers, or put one hard drive in a Sabrent enclosure: IDE and SATA inside, USB 2.0 and eSATA outside interface.
I could also buy a USB-to-Ethernet adapter, don't know how these things work under FreeBSD. But I would still have to plug into the 25 ft Ethernet cable that goes across the floor and creates a tripping hazard, though I haven't tripped over it yet in over two years.
I already have one wired and two wireless ways of connecting to the Internet, think they might all work with Linux but really need to test them.
Again I seem to have lost the Internet connection, despite "ifconfig" showing
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
rsu0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
options=1<RXCSUM>
ether 00:13:33:a2:86:f0
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
status: associated
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:13:33:a2:86:f0
inet 192.168.0.101 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g
status: associated
ssid Maclura_pomifera channel 8 (2447 MHz 11g) bssid a0:f3:c1:f9:39:7a
country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF
AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 0 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan
bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS
roaming MANUAL
uname -a shows
FreeBSD amelia4 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #8 r267220M: Sun Jun 8 17:16:53 UTC 2014 root at amelia4:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDY11NC amd64
Tom
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