Re: wireless card

Jesse Guardiani <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Organization WingNET
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ulrich Plate wrote:

> Jon Disnard wrote:
> 
>> You will do well with any card that is based on the PRISM2 chip set.
>> To see a list of cards that support the Prism2 silicon, see the wi(4)
>> man page. As it happens, your choice of the Netgear ma401 is a prism2
>> card, and supports the ability to become an AP, and has a jack for an
>> external antenna.
>> 
>> Avoid the Lucent cards like plauge. They are of major suck.
> 
> This may well be true, but funny as it seems, I'm having no trouble
> whatsoever with my Lucent Silver card in getting it to work inside my
> WEP setup, while the Netgear MA401 refuses to acknowledge the keys (and
> DHCP times out because of that). I've asked about this a few weeks ago,
> but the only remedy suggested back then didn't solve it... I'd certainly
> appreciate if someone could look over this again and tell me where I go
> wrong. I have 'ifconfig_wi0="DHCP"' in rc.conf and a start_if.wi0 that
> goes '/sbin/ifconfig ssid XXXXX wepmode on weptxkey 3 wepkey 1:XXXXX
> 2:XXXXX 3:XXXXX 4:XXXXX'. Manually assigning an IP address doesn't work,

Is that a hex key, or a text key? You should ALWAYS use hex keys for maximum
portability. I can't use text keys and WEP at all with my AP.


> either, and a third card I've tested, an equally Prism2-based Planex
> GW-CF11H, has identical problems.
> 
> TIA
> Ulrich Plate

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