I just got my main computer back up and running with a fresh Dragonfly BSD install (version 3.4.3). I compiled X11 and e17 from source. All of that was done through my Nvidia Ethernet which worked flawlessly. Now I want to get away from the router, so I went to the Freebsd docs and tried to set up my Railink Wifi Antenna.

After following the documentation I went to sbin and tried to get an IP, but it times out and goes to sleep.

So I did a


and the output says "Railink: Nothing Appropriate".

I also have an external USB WifI antenna, but when I searched for it with pciconf -lv, it was not shown with the other devices listed, nor was the Railink antenna.

It's Ralink, not Railink

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http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rum&sektion=4

(27-09-2013, 11:36 AM)dcoppa Wrote: It's Ralink, not Railink

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http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rum&sektion=4

:P Oops.

Looking at it correctly now, the OS correctly found my device using


However Dragonfly (3.4.3) does not have the rum driver in their OS by default. After messing around with the other Ralink drivers they had, none of them worked. So i'll have to download the driver. So i'll post an update on Monday.

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Thanks dcoppa for pointing out my spelling mistake, or I would be 90 before I actually figured that out.

Also, if I messed something else up here are the two files I edited.


# /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf



and my

# /etc/rc.conf