From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 21 05:21:32 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E741016A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 05:21:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA7D643D31 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 05:21:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3L5LN4t089675; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:51:23 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:51:15 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <000b01c545dc$5dbf0a90$0300a8c0@COMETE> In-Reply-To: <000b01c545dc$5dbf0a90$0300a8c0@COMETE> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200504211451.15494.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.5 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Damien Bergamini Subject: Re: New wireless drivers committed X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 05:21:33 -0000 On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 04:38, Damien Bergamini wrote: > ipw(4) and iwi(4) both require firmwares to operate. > These firmwares can't be redistributed with the base system due to > license restrictions. See firmware licensing terms here: > http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/firmware.php?fid=4 > Ports which include the firmware images as well as the firmware loader > are being worked on. It seems you have to bring the interface up before SSID scanning happens, eg.. [inchoate 11:25] ~ >sudo kldload if_ipw SSH passphrase: [inchoate 11:25] ~ >sudo ipwcontrol -i ipw0 -f /usr/local/libdata/if_ipw/ipw2100-1.3.fw [inchoate 11:30] ~ >/usr/bin/time sudo ifconfig ipw0 scan 0.06 real 0.02 user 0.01 sys [inchoate 11:30] ~ >sudo ifconfig ipw0 ssid x up 1.2.3.4 [inchoate 14:45] ~ >/usr//bin/time sudo ifconfig ipw0 scan SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS 00:00:00:00:00:00 9 0M 0:0 0 0... 00:07:85:92:bf:10 9 11M 10:0 100 ES WME AP0CAE6B 00:03:2f:0c:ae:6b 6 22M 10:0 100 EB 0.11 real 0.01 user 0.00 sys Also I expect the first entry in that list is a little bogus :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C