Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:47:23 +0200 From: Teemu Korhonen <teemu.korhonen@mbnet.fi> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Trouble setting up wireless network Message-ID: <op.s5fp89k4ppqvbi@smtp.suomi.net>
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I'm trying to make an adhoc wlan between my desktop computer (WinXP) and
laptop (FreeBSD-6.0). Both have 802.11b/g wlan-adapters.
They seem to connect, but theres no data transfer and neither can ping
each other. Windows machine can ping it self, but freebsd machine can't.
("ping: sendto: Host is down")
The laptop's wlan-card worked fine when I tried it at university's wlan.
( just command "dhclient ndis0" was sufficent )
Here's some debugging information:
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Gandalf# dmesg | grep ndis0
ndis0: <Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card> mem 0x88000000-0x88001fff
irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0
ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:07:40:fa:01:c5
Gandalf# ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.0.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 media
DS/11Mbps mediaopt adhoc ssid koti channel 10 up
Gandalf# ifconfig ndis0
ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::207:40ff:fefa:1c5%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 192.168.0.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
ether 00:07:40:fa:01:c5
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps <adhoc>)
status: associated
ssid koti channel 1 bssid de:54:3a:eb:21:75
authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 protmode CTS
Gandalf# ifconfig ndis0 scan
SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS
koti 8e:3d:96:d9:e7:80 1 11M 161:0 100 I ??? ??? ???
???
Gandalf# wicontrol ndis0
NIC serial number: [ ]
Station name: [ Gandalf.koti ]
SSID for IBSS creation: [ koti ]
Current netname (SSID): [ koti ]
Desired netname (SSID): [ koti ]
Current BSSID: [ de:54:3a:eb:21:75 ]
Channel list: [ 3fff ]
IBSS channel: [ 10 ]
Current channel: [ 1 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise: [ 0 0 0 ]
Promiscuous mode: [ Off ]
Intersil-Prism2 based card: [ 1 ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc): [ 0 ]
MAC address: [ 00:07:40:fa:01:c5 ]
TX rate (selection): [ 11 ]
TX rate (actual speed): [ 11 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold: [ 2346 ]
Create IBSS: [ On ]
Access point density: [ 1 ]
Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off): [ 0 ]
Max sleep time: [ 100 ]
WEP encryption: [ Off ]
TX encryption key: [ 0 ]
Encryption keys: [ ][ ][ ][ ]
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