Re: Senao WiFi problems

Frank Mayhar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Organization Exit Consulting
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 16:07 +0100, Howard Drake wrote:
> I have a Senao 2511 MP Plus mini PCI card running under FreeBSD 5.3. I am
> trying to make it scan for available networks and currently run the
> following two commands "ifconfig wi0 ssid ''" followed by "wicontrol -L",
> but I get wildley different results each time I run these commands -
> sometimes I get a list of 6 or 7 access points and other times I don't get
> any listed. These tests are carried out in the same location, consecutively,
> so I would expect to see the same number of available access points. 
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas as to what I'm missing, or what the problem is?

I urge you to upgrade to FreeBSD 6, which has a _lot_ of new code and
bug fixes that won't be backported to 5 (due to API changes in 6).  I'm
running that card or a very similar one (mine is an a/b/g card) on
-current with no problems at all.  5, though, will, I'm afraid, never
fully support those cards, at least not to the extent that 6 does and
7-current will.
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