Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:09:32 -0700 From: "Ian Cartwright" <ian351c@home.com> To: <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "FreeBSD Hardware" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Problems with netgear MA401 Message-ID: <FCEJJHIBHGNJPCHBDMACEEPLCEAA.ian351c@home.com>
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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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