wi question

I've recently installed Hawking Technologies WP251 PCI cards (based
Prism 2.5) into a FreeBSD 4.6-RC and a W2K server box.  I've configured
these as 'adhoc' with 128bit WEP.  Everything worked great with very
little messing around.

The only problem I have is that when I reboot the Windows machine, the
FreeBSD box gets confused and will not talk to the Windows box until I
give a nudge.

    ifconfig wi0 down
    ifconfig wi0 up

does the trick.  Is this something I can fix by updating my
configuration or is it a known driver issue?  I am including dmesg,
wicontrol and ifconfig output below.

I'd greatly appreciate your thoughts.  Cheers,

-- Norbert Papke.
   [email protected]


wi0: <Intersil Prism2.5> mem 0xcddff000-0xcddfffff irq 5 at device 11.0
on pci0
wi0: 802.11 address: 00:02:dd:30:fb:4d
wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI)
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.00.05, Station 1.03.04


NIC serial number:                      [ 0123456789   ]
Station name:                           [ provenbase ]
SSID for IBSS creation:                 [ proven ]
Current netname (SSID):                 [ proven ]
Desired netname (SSID):                 [ proven ]
Current BSSID:                          [ 02:02:55:89:fb:51 ]
Channel list:                           [ 2047 ]
IBSS channel:                           [ 9 ]
Current channel:                        [ 9 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise:             [ 90 140 1 ]
Promiscuous mode:                       [ Off ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):            [ 3 ]
MAC address:                            [ 00:02:dd:30:fb:4d ]
TX rate (selection):                    [ 3 ]
TX rate (actual speed):                 [ 11 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold:            [ 2347 ]
Create IBSS:                            [ Off ]
Access point density:                   [ 1 ]
Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off):               [ 0 ]
Max sleep time:                         [ 100 ]
WEP encryption:                         [ On ]
TX encryption key:                      [ 1 ]
Encryption keys:                        [ 0xxxx ][  ][  ][  ]



wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 172.16.1.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.1.255
        inet6 fe80::202:ddff:fe30:fb4d%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 
        ether 00:02:dd:30:fb:4d
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <adhoc> (DS/11Mbps <adhoc>)
        status: associated
        ssid proven 1:proven
        stationname provenbase
        channel 9 authmode NONE powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
        wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1
        wepkey 1:128-bit

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