Re: How to connect to Wireless LAN using Athereos AR5007EG ?

,--[ On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 08:05:45PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> Ashish Shukla ???? ????? wrote:
>> [posted earlier but got no replies, so reposting]
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I've tried HAL v. 0.10.5.6 available at Sam Leffler's user directory[1]
>> in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 (amd64) and Gentoo GNU/Linux (hardened/AMD64).
>>
>> In Gentoo GNU/Linux, I'm able to connect to a WPA2 secured network with
>> no problems, whereas in FreeBSD, I'm only able to scan the Wireless
>> network successfully, not able to ping any box. I've tried FreeBSD with
>> an unencrypted network as well as encrypted network using
>> wpa_supplicant, but except scanning nothing worked. I can associate with
>> the access point, but thats it.
>>
>> I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 kernel, just replaced
>> /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath with the directory in tarball, and rebuilt
>> all modules.
>>
>> abbe [ath_hal-20080528] monte-cristo% pciconf -l |grep ath0
>> ath0@pci0:1:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x137b103c chip=0x001c168c 
>> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>>
>> Any ideas ?
>>
>> References:
>> [1] - http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/ath_hal-20080528.tgz
>>
>> Tons of thanks to Sam for posting the HAL.
>>   
> HEAD works fine with 0.10.5.6 so there's something in the 7.x driver that 
> needs to be updated. I hope to look at it this weekend.

Thanks, looking forward to try new driver :) .

Ashish
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