Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:16:52 -0700 From: "Ian Cartwright" <ian351c@home.com> To: "FreeBSD Mobile" <mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "FreeBSD Hardware" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: FW: Problems with netgear MA401 Message-ID: <FCEJJHIBHGNJPCHBDMACGEACCFAA.ian351c@home.com>
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Repost because it's been about 24 hours and my post hasn't shown up... > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Cartwright [mailto:ian351c@home.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 4:10 PM > To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; FreeBSD Questions; FreeBSD Hardware > Subject: Problems with netgear MA401 > > > Hello eveybody, > > I've posted a couple timed before with no replies. But now that > 4.4-R is out maybe there is time for someone to take alook at this... > > I have a Netgear MA-401 that I have been unable to get woring > under FreeBSD. > The card works fine under Windows 2000. The card works great in FreeBSD > without WEP. When I enable WEP I lose my connection. I have scoured the > archives, which resulted in: update to a recent -STABLE > (9/14/01), addition > of a flag to pccard.conf to allow "Prism2 mode" for my card > (which fixed an > issue with wicontrol reporting WEP off even though ifconfig said > it was on), > and not much else, and moving my configuration commands from > pccard.conf to start_if.wi0. I have also tried configuring > straight from ifconfig with no change in results. > > Here is some info about my current setup: > > - The card works with WEP disabled > - My WEP key is entered in hex > - I am trying to attach to a Netgear MA-102 Access Point which > only supports > 40 bit hex keys > - wicontrol looks like it is doing everything properly (correct > keys, ssid, > etc.) > - ifconfig looks OK too, except "authmode" is NONE and I cannot > change it to > anything else > > Here is a copy of my start_if.wi0 > > #!/bin/sh > /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -t 11 > /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -n IansWireless > /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -c 0 -p 0 > /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -k 0x1111111111 -v 1 > /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -T 1 > /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -e 1 > > Also, I have noticed some strange behavior when setting keys. If > I set the 40 bit WEP key to all 3's then do a wicontrol -i wi0 to > report the keys, it will show the key as '33333' (as in a text > string instead of hex). But that may or may not be part of this. > > Cheers, > > Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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