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Date:      Wed, 3 Apr 2002 13:04:10 -0500
From:      "Kevin McCormick" <kmccorm1@stevens-tech.edu>
To:        "Anthony Sferrazza" <sferrazza@attbi.com>, <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Getting wi and wicontrol under control
Message-ID:  <NJEILFFGFACAOBDNPELNKEDNCCAA.kmccorm1@stevens-tech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <LMEJLNMGAALDDCECPCIBEEFLBNAB.sferrazza@attbi.com>

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Thanks a lot Anthony,

That clears up a lot of my problems.

However, my network does have WEP, so how can I set WEP keys at boot as
well?

Best regards,
Kevin McCormick
kmccorm1@stevens-tech.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Sferrazza [mailto:sferrazza@attbi.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 12:58 PM
To: Kevin McCormick; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org;
freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: Getting wi and wicontrol under control


Hi Kevin,

I have an armada E500 with a buffalo tech 802.11b card.  To get mine
working, I added the following to rc.conf

pccard_enable="YES"
pccard_beep="0"  # this is because I hate the beep.
pccard_ifconfig="DHCP"

I don't use wicontrol at all.

Hope this helps,
-Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kevin McCormick
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 12:47 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject: Getting wi and wicontrol under control


Hello,

I'm currently running RELEASE-4.5 on a Compaq Armada E500 with a Compaq
WL110 802.11b card.  I'm using a slightly modified GENERIC kernel (for sound
support and WINE).  The notebook also has an integrated 10/100 NIC

I can' seem to figure out how to use my wireless card.  I seem to have wi
working properly.  Using wicontrol, I can set the WEP key, network name,
etc., and using an X wi tool, I get the appropriate signal strength (i.e. I
seem to be connected on the MAC level).

Here are the problems:

1. I can't seem to figure out how to use dhclient to obtain an IP address -
typing in dhclient returns "cannot bind address"  Also, if I use ifconfig to
manually assign an address, it doesn't seem to "stick", and still can't ping
any addresses.

2. All of the wicontrol settings are lost when I restart the PC.  I need to
type them in every time to get signal.

3. pccardd doesn't seem to recognize the card until the "network setup:
hostname" portion of the boot sequence.

Any ideas on any of the problems?


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