Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 22:14:15 -0500 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net> To: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> Cc: FreeBSD - Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: MA401 worked w/5.3 - No go under CURRENT Message-ID: <1108869255.958.21.camel@RabbitsDen> In-Reply-To: <4217C407.8070605@makeworld.com> References: <421290FA.40108@makeworld.com> <20050216010859.GA57098@freebsd3.cimlogic.com.au> <4217C407.8070605@makeworld.com>
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On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 16:56 -0600, Chris wrote:
> John Birrell wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:16:58PM -0600, Chris wrote:
> >
> >> I'm just starting to follow the CURRENT branch and popped that
> >> latest snapshot on my laptop. Under 5.3 my NetGear MA401 worked with just
> >>adding something like this to /etc/rc.conf:
> >>
> >>ifconfig_wi0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid XXX
> >>wepmode on wepkey 0xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> >>
> >> And everything came up just dandy. Has something changed?
> >
> >
> > I hadn't tried to use my wireless stuff for months until a few days ago. I have
> > the hostap running on current and I was trying to connect with wepmode on from
> > a RELENG_5 laptop without success. I read the recent messages suggesting the
> > explicit setting of the wepkey and default key, but that didn't solve the problem.
> >
> > I'll be away from the current box for 5 weeks and unable to debug anything, so I
> > know this message is virtally useless. I just wanted to say "me too".
> >
>
> Ok folks, I added the suggested stuff in /etc/rc.conf:
>
> ifconfig_wi0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid XXX
> wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:0xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
>
> And /boot/loader.conf:
> wlan_wep="YES"
>
> Still a no-go. Light on the wireless nic just blinks.
> I'm pretty much at a loss - anyone?
>
Here is what I have working under -CURRENT as of 2/19 circa 11:00 AM
EST:
sunny:RabbitsDen>dmesg | grep -i netgear
pccard0: CIS info: NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC, Card, ISL37300P,
Eval-RevA
pccard0: CIS info: NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC, Card, ISL37300P
wi0: <NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC Card> at port 0x100-0x13f irq 10
function 0 config 1 on pccard0
sunny:RabbitsDen>grep ifconfig `which wi0`
ifconfig ${NIC} ssid XXX 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 wepmode on
wepkey 0x00000000000000000000000000 deftxkey 1
sunny:RabbitsDen>grep wlan /sys/i386/conf/AVERATEC
device wlan # 802.11 support
device wlan_wep # WEP support (needs to be compiled in
for now)
sunny:RabbitsDen>kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 15 0xc0400000 4496ec kernel
2 1 0xc084d000 3064 powernow_k7.ko
3 1 0xc0851000 1ccc io.ko
4 1 0xc0853000 482c mem.ko
5 1 0xc1de9000 6000 linprocfs.ko
6 1 0xc1def000 18000 linux.ko
7 1 0xc2560000 1e000 if_wi.ko
sunny:RabbitsDen>
I guess you can start by checking whether your card is the same revision
as mine, and then bring your configuration in line with mine
dot-for-dot.
If this does not work, we can trade outputs from dmesg with
hw.cbb.debug=1 and hw.pccard.debug=1.
Should all of it fail you can always hope that someone who knows
wireless stuff will reply ;)
--
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)
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