Re: 802.11a PCI cards.

"M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
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            <[email protected]> writes:
: I'm using a Dlink DWL 650 which is a pci card in my freebsd 5.0 current
: test box, it works great, although you will have to fiddle with
: wicontrol abit, (assuming you use 5.0) as I had to use an option -p 0
: for it to work, however the man file notes 1 and 3 are valid options..
: Which did not work for me.  I am unsure about 4.5 stable though, I
: believe someone ported the bsd airtools that were for 4.4 to 4.5, you
: will have to search the mailing list.

But -p 0 does nothing in the kernel.  My 650 works great by typing a
simple "dhclient wi0" and nothing else.

I'm having some minor issues with -current and the air-tools
functionality.  I think that somehow wi_cmd is getting entered
multiple times when dstumbler is running, but haven't had the time to
track that down....

Warner

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