How I Got My Wifi Running Consistently on PC-BSD 8.0

Had a hard time looking for the way to setup Wifi on my PC-BSD 8.0 installation. After much navigation, I found it nestled within System Settings -> System Network Configuration.

So I did my configuration here and expected Wifi to connect instantly with no problems. And it connected, for at least 5 mins. then it cut-off and after a few seconds it connected again only to disconnect after 20 secs. (or less). In other words, it was giving me intermittent connection.

How I Got PC-BSD Into The GRUB2 Menu of Ubuntu

Long story short -- I followed a guide for this; CLICK ME and I will take you there.

Long story long, this is how I did it personally.

I went into Terminal and typed:

riclags@nix:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for riclags:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00095910

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        2432    19530752   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            2432       15076   101561345    5  Extended
/dev/sda3           15076       19458    35195737+  a5  FreeBSD
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5            2432       14590    97654784   83  Linux
/dev/sda6           14590       15076     3905536   82  Linux swap / Solaris

I took note that FreeBSD, the base of PC-BSD, is in /dev/sda3 device.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS comes installed with GRUB2 so doing changes to the menu is a bit different.