From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 05:33:44 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB4B16A4CE for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 05:33:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from arginine.spc.org (arginine.spc.org [195.206.69.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3D1143D3F for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 05:33:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bms@spc.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arginine.spc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCD6D653E6; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 05:33:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from arginine.spc.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arginine.spc.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 57955-04-2; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 05:33:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from empiric.dek.spc.org (unknown [213.210.24.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by arginine.spc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E845653DF; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 05:33:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by empiric.dek.spc.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0D4296530; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 05:33:49 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 05:33:49 +0000 From: Bruce M Simpson To: "Gary E. RAFE, Ph.D." Message-ID: <20050110053349.GE709@empiric.icir.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Gary E. RAFE, Ph.D." , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <41E18AE3.nailMN61176AO@mail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41E18AE3.nailMN61176AO@mail.com> cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New trouble with wi(4) & AP discovery X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 05:33:44 -0000 On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:49:55PM -0500, Gary E. RAFE, Ph.D. wrote: > After a few minutes, the following dstumbler error message appeared: ... > [a TOSHIBA Wireless LAN Card, Lucent Firmware: Station (8.72.1)] ... dstumbler doesn't work with the Orinoco/Lucent chips. Historically these chips have been much more opaque in terms of what one can do with them. Whilst the PRISM2 and Orinoco chipsets are very similar in terms of their register interface, under the hood they are very different. It is because of their similarity that FreeBSD supports them with the same driver, but their capabilities are far different; this is largely due to what can be done with the combination of card and firmware. > In the meantime, our USR2410 PCCARD on wi1 has been running > dstumbler without complaint for over an hour... Yes. dstumbler only supports PRISM2.x chipsets. Regards, BMS