Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 14:42:53 -0700 From: "Lane Spiers" <lane@spiersfamily.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: SMC Wireless Errors Message-ID: <001a01c1d9c6$2da98180$06631fac@laspiershome>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0017_01C1D98B.810F0010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm fairly new to the FreeBSD world, although I've used Solaris and = Linux for the last 10 years or so. I just installed 4.5 on my laptop = (Toshiba Tecra 8000 - latest BIOS). Everything seemed to work well out = of the box. On boot up, my SMC 2632W wirless NIC is properly identified = and assigned to the wi0 interface. When I attempt to ifconfig it, it = accepts the IP address and mask, and appears to communicate with the = access point. When I attempt to ping another host on my network, I get: = "wi0: watchdog timeout". I've looked throught the archives a little = bit, and saw a similar post that recommended upgrading the firmware on = the card. I tried that, but it didn't appear to make any difference. Does anyone have any other ideas? Has anyone else been able to get this = NIC to work w/ FreeBSD? Thanks. Lane ------=_NextPart_000_0017_01C1D98B.810F0010 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I'm fairly new to the FreeBSD world, = although I've=20 used Solaris and Linux for the last 10 years or so. I just = installed 4.5=20 on my laptop (Toshiba Tecra 8000 - latest BIOS). Everything seemed = to work=20 well out of the box. On boot up, my SMC 2632W wirless NIC is = properly=20 identified and assigned to the wi0 interface. When I attempt to = ifconfig=20 it, it accepts the IP address and mask, and appears to communicate with = the=20 access point. When I attempt to ping another host on my network, I = get:=20 "wi0: watchdog timeout". I've looked throught the archives a = little bit,=20 and saw a similar post that recommended upgrading the firmware on the=20 card. I tried that, but it didn't appear to make any=20 difference.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Does anyone have any other ideas? = Has anyone=20 else been able to get this NIC to work w/ FreeBSD?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Lane</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0017_01C1D98B.810F0010-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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