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Hello!<br>
<br>
Thanks for the help…...<br>
I have solved the problem myself. I write this post in case of some
other DFLYBSD <br>
newcomer has the same or a similar issue.<br>
I downloaded the DragonFly-x86_64-LATEST-GUI.img file and I
installed it to a <br>
USB key using the freeware for Windows Win32DiskImager. After that
the system <br>
was loaded and I logged in as root and I typed "startx", the first
thing that I <br>
did was to add this line to the file /etc/rc.conf (using ee, the
line command <br>
editor, or mousepad, the GUI editor) to assign an IP to my machine
automatically <br>
at the startup (this is good independently from the type of
connection):<br>
<br>
dhcp_enable="YES"<br>
<br>
I searched the driver for my WiFi card (Realtek RTL8191SE Wireless
LAN 802.11n <br>
PCI-E NIC) and/or my external WiFi device (usb/hotspot Huawei Mobile
WiFi E5776s-<br>
32). I have a laptop Laptop Toshiba Satellite L555.11L). I didn't
found the <br>
specific or adaptable drivers. After I tried to use my WiFi device
like a USB <br>
key and not a hotspot. I read somewhere that it is possible with
ugensa adding <br>
this line to the file /boot/loader.conf:<br>
<br>
ugensa_load="YES"<br>
<br>
Not a real progress: it didn't work no more. Then I tried to convert
my Windows <br>
drivers by ndisgen, the ndis utility for this task (see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://leaf.dragonflybsd">http://leaf.dragonflybsd</a>.<br>
org/cgi/web-man?command=ndis§ion=4 or typing "man ndis" at a
command line ). <br>
It's simple and fast to use, but it's necessary to download the
DFLYBSD sources <br>
for the release because the .img file doesn't contain them. Because
I had not an <br>
Internet connection working under DFLYBSD, I was obliged to
download the <br>
sources in a cybercafe to use a Ethernet connection that does not
pose any <br>
specific problems . After this I was able to convert the RTL8191SE
firmware <br>
without errors, but not the Huawei device driver. To load
automatically at startup the <br>
RTL8191SE driver and the necessary ndis modules I added these lines
to /boot/loader.conf:<br>
<br>
ndis_load="YES"<br>
if_ndis_load="YES"<br>
rtl8192se_sys_load="YES" ---> (the driver for RTL8191SE Wireless
card)<br>
<br>
and I tried some other (theoretically) useful tricks that I found
here: <<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www">http://www</a>.<br>
wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/wireless.html> adapting to my
necessities. <br>
Nothing happened.<br>
At long last I found the solution thank to the article "NETGEAR
Universal Wifi <br>
Adapter (WNCE2001)" that I found here:
<<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bsdmag.org/system/articles/">http://bsdmag.org/system/articles/</a><br>
attachment1s/14938/original/BSD_11_2012_Run_FreeBSD_as_NAT_INSTANCE_in_Cloud.pdf?<br>
1352285886>. The device is a Ethernet-WiFi-Ethernet adapter
(here's the manual: <<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/WNCE2001/WNCE2001_UM_24Sep10.pdf">http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/WNCE2001/WNCE2001_UM_24Sep10.pdf</a>
>). <br>
It is useful to receive the WiFi signal from a router/hotspot if the
computer <br>
has not a (recognized) WiFi card or USB key. It was experienced by
the article <br>
author using two releases of GhostBSD and PCBSD. Now it's sure that
it runs also <br>
with DFLYBSD, theoretically with any PC/Laptop having an Ethernet
card and with <br>
an external WiFi hotspot. I buy it for 35 €<span
class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, 'Lucida Sans Unicode',
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(254, 253, 235); "><big>€</big></span> (about
50 $). This is the worst <br>
thing using this method to connect DFLYBSD to a WiFi network.<br>
Before to boot DFLYBSD I attached the device to the Ethernet port
and the USB <br>
cable to power it (alternatively it's possible to use the power
adapter). Once <br>
the system loaded, I verified that the Ethernet connection was
active using <br>
ifconfig at the command line:<br>
<br>
dflyd# ifconfig -a<br>
re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500<br>
options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING><br>
inet6 fe80::226:22ff:fefa:c258%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1<br>
inet 192.168.1.100 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255<br>
ether 00:26:22:fa:c2:58<br>
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)<br>
status: active<br>
faith0: flags=8002<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500<br>
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384<br>
options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM><br>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000<br>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128<br>
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3<br>
ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500<br>
sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552<br>
<br>
The verification was positive and I launched Firefox, the default
browser of the <br>
XFCE desktop. As DHCP was enabled, normally it must appear a window
with the <br>
Netgear Smart Wizard. This didn't happen. Then I input into the URL
bar the <br>
address of the Netgear Wizard (advanced setting) page:
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.mywifiext.com/start.htm"><http://www.mywifiext.com/start.htm></a> <br>
(see here: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://cjoint.com/14jv/DAbu5gU1WL3.htm"><http://cjoint.com/14jv/DAbu5gU1WL3.htm></a>). And
voilà! It was <br>
done.<br>
Now I am using DFLYBSD connected to the Internet and I am posting
this message.<br>
<br>
Micman<br>
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