Ath0: no carrier

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I added

if_ath_load="YES"
wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
wlan_tkip_load="YES"

to /boot/loader.conf

I then tried to compile these drivers into the kernel:

device ath               # Atheros IEEE 802.11 wireless network driver
device ath_hal           # Atheros Hardware Access Layer
device ath_rate_sample   # John Bicket's SampleRate control algorithm.
device wlan              # 802.11 support (Required)
device wlan_wep          # WEP crypto support for 802.11 devices
device wlan_ccmp         # AES-CCMP crypto support for 802.11 devices
device wlan_tkip         # TKIP and Michael crypto support for 802.11 devices

Rebuilding the kernel failed with a compile error regarding ath_hal. See: ath_hal error (I am not yet allowed to post the URL pointing to that thread).

So I then tried to load the necessary modules by hand but I got:

can't load ... : File exists.

I added:

ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP

"

to /etc/rc.conf

I tried:

/etc/rc.d/netif start
Starting wpa_supplicant.
ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=5 eloop_data=0x28407140 user_data=0x2840e040 handler=0x8069f40
Starting Network: lo0 ath0.
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
	options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 
	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
ath0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
	ether 00:c0:a8:a9:c6:96
	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
	status: no carrier

wpa_supplicant[97512]: Failed to initialise driver interface
/etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant: WARNING: failed to start wpa_supplicant

I added this to /etc/wpa_supplicant:

network={
ssid="my network name"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk=" my password"
}

I added this to /etc/rc.conf:

ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP"

I'm stuck. Any ideas?