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FreeBSD 12.0 Wireless Networking

Last updated: 2019-02-24

GUI setup

There is a program that helps with this: WiFi Networks Manager

pkg install wifimgr

Manual setup

You need to make sure your hardware driver gets loaded into the kernel. If you selected this at setup you won't need to add this.

Add to /etc/rc.conf:

kld_list="if_iwm"
wlans_iwm0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"

Your connection info goes in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
eapol_version=2
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1

network={
    ssid="wifi-access-point-ssid-goes-here"
    psk="p4ssw0rd"
}

Restart the service

service netif restart

Resources

Some discussion on wifi networking.

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