Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 05:04:53 -0500 From: Seahawk <seahawk@visi.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: wireless atheros card problems Message-ID: <1113818693.699.17.camel@mus.cyber-penguin.com>
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Hello, I recently bought a Orinoco 11b/g PC Card Gold (model 8470-WD) to replace a D-Link G650 b/g card. Both cards used the atheros drivers and the D-Link worked without any problems with my setup. The Orinoco card wouldn't associate with my AP when I turned it on. I eventually tracked down the problem to the fact that the card won't associate when I had my AP not broadcasting the ssid, when I turn on broadcasting I can associate fine. While this isn't the biggest thing, I'd prefer to leave broadcasting off, and was wondering if there is some configuration I'm not aware of? The other thing I noticed while troubleshooting is that if I issue the command to put the card in 11b mode I get the following error: ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (mode): Device not configured I saw in another message when searching that this might mean there's a problem in the ath_hal driver for this card, so I'm wondering if my previously mentioned problem might also be a driver issue. I did a buildworld on the system April 13th, and here is the dmesg output for my card: ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0x88000000-0x8800ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0 ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 5ghz radio 4.6 ath0: Ethernet address: 00:20:a6:51:d6:66 ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps I noticed there was no 11b rates line, which my D-Link card had showed in the dmesg output. Thanks for any help, -Chad seahawk@visi.com
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