Hardware

rebuilt an old Toshiba 9100 laptop (old P4) that has the toshiba wireless lan card onboard.

Wireless does work -- hw tested under a different OS.  freebsd recognizes the card; and so does monowall; to the point that I am able to configure the interface as if nothing's sideways.

not picking up ssid from other laptops (ssid is not hidden); and the mode is hostap w/802.11b as the medium.

Is it just the case that the wireless nic is not really being picked up by freebsd (even though it's stating it's seeing it)?

appreciate any ideas and thanks.