Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 22:06:23 -0500 From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wireless Lan - recommendations Message-ID: <20011225220623.A10713@pir.net> In-Reply-To: <20011225171337.A29819@freeway.dcfinc.com>; from chad@DCFinc.com on Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 05:13:37PM -0700 References: <200112100850.fBA8oNV85788@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20011210142256.B23826@squall.waterspout.com> <20011210133744.H92148@elvis.mu.org> <20011212114909.D7869@freeway.dcfinc.com> <20011218091819.A31979@lunatic.oneinsane.net> <20011220021307.A29159@pir.net> <20011225171337.A29819@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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"Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> probably said:
> I've not tried an SMC card under FreeBSD, but under Win98 128bit WEP
> works find, and my Intersil Prism II card does as well.
As I've said before, the SMC card's 128bit WEP works fine under 'doze
but not under FreeBSD, which is why mine is now in my wife's laptop.
I just retested, with -STABLE from Nov 25th and got;
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
ether 08:00:46:05:d6:93
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps)
status: associated
ssid wl.rfc.pir.net
stationname ""
channel 6 authmode NONE powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1
wepkey 1:128-bit
which looked promising so I tried dhclient and got it so slow for a
while I thought it had hung and a bunch of errors;
wi0: watchdog timeout
wi0: init failed
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fce0/0; last status ffff
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc07/0; last status ffff
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc81/0; last status ffff
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc00/0; last status ffff
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc83/0; last status ffff
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc84/0; last status ffff
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc06/0; last status ffff
[...] lots moe of these.
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc80/0; last status ffff
wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC
wi0: tx buffer allocation failed
wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC
wi0: mgmt. buffer allocation failed
wi0: flags=8c43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
ether 08:00:46:05:d6:93
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
status: no carrier
Then I pulled the card ... and a little while later got;
wi0: detached
pccard: card removed, slot 0
Dec 25 21:59:42 disapp pccardd[118]: wi0: SMC (SMC2632W) removed.
and the machine woke up again. Back to my Cisco card.
P.
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