Re: wifi
Robert Blacquiere <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi, On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 07:46:36PM -0800, James A. Feister wrote: > I have a netgear WG511t wireless card on a dell > inspiron 1550. I am using the current freebsd > release. > When inserted on boot-up the card dose not get > recognized. I do have > the ath and ath_hal in my kernel. > On first insertion after boot up a message comes back: > cbb0: CardBus card activation failed > When reinserted the second time I get the following: > ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xf6010000-0xf601ffff irq 16 > at device 0.0 on cardbus0 > ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 4.6 > ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps > ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps > 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36M > bps 48Mbps 54Mbps > ath0: 802.11 address: 00:09:5b:95:16:fa > > I then run ifconfig: > ifconfig ath0 ssid <insertname> wepmode on wepkey > 0x<26char wep key here> > > then again with the following output: > ath0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > ether 00:09:5b:95:16:fa > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet > autoselect > status: no carrier > ssid MCNET2002 1:MCNET2002 > channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF > powersavesleep 100 > wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1 > wepkey 1:104-bit > Is the access point using shared keys? I had similar problems when using shared wepkey option on my access point. Disabling this option and the wireless card automaticly worked ... > from there I've got nothing. can not ping, no ip. Is > there something I am missing. I think there is some problem with shared key operation. But can't realy figure out what is causing this . > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. > http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what? OpenBSD: Hey guys you left some holes out there! _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"