Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 23:42:44 +0200 From: "Denis Fortin" <fortin@acm.org> To: <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Netgear MA401RA weirdness - Any solution? Message-ID: <000701c26993$7a232db0$0c7fa8c0@asus2000>
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Some weeks ago (July 29th), Brian Gottlieb wrote freebsd-mobile about his issue with the Netgear MA401RA wifi card. This card, although labeled "Netgear MA401", is a newer release of the card, apparently based on the Prism 2.5 chip. At that time, his symptoms were that the card worked fine under windows, but even though the card (when added in /etc/defaults/pccard.conf) was detected fine, trying to activate it under FreeBSD only produces a blinking LED, with a "no carrier" indication in ifconfig... Has this issue been resolved, because I have exactly the same issue! Any help would be appreciated. (I can't find a resolution in the freebsd-mobile archives) Denis Fortin fortin@acm.org PS. Or any hint as to what I can try to do to solve the issue... PPS. This is with FreeBSD 4.6.2 PPPS. Brian's July 29th message went like this: Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:30:03 -0700 Subject: Re: netgear MA401RA weirdness Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org To: "Mark A-J. Raught" <mraught@acm.org> From: Brian Gottlieb <brianosaurus@yahoo.com> On Saturday, July 27, 2002, at 05:46 PM, Mark A-J. Raught wrote: > Brian, > Here's what helped me. This was actually on a Linksys card for me, but > it was exactly the same symptoms and this fixed it. This is from a > thread around the 8th of May this year (relevant email attached at the > bottom). It got me going. If you need specifics let me know and I will > did up my files (I'm on a windows machine at the moment). I think it was > just a -p 0 on both of the machines and a -c 1 on the wireless routing > machine. I gave -p 0 a shot, but it didn't help. in fact i tried "-p" with everything from 0-6 just for kicks. When i set it to "-p 0", however, all of the 802.11 info (ssid, station name, channel, wepmode, etc) disappears from the "ifconfig wi0" listing, so i'm not sure what the deal is there. One thing i noticed is that the "NIC serial number" from wicontrol output is "99SA01000000", rather than the "MA41B26185676" printed on the card, which makes me think that something in fact isn't quite right. The MAC addrs do match up, so i don't know what to make of it. But still, when "dstumbler -o" puts it into monitor mode, it sees my basestation and all the other clients. But in normal modes, it won't join my wireless network. My setup is FreeBSD 4.6, Netgear MA401RA (box says MA401), trying to talk to an apple airport basestation. When i plug the card into a windows laptop, it syncs up just fine. When i plug it into my bsd box it just blinks. brian ps - i think i'm going to do the low-tech solution of swapping cards with my fiancee's old MA401, but i'm still kind of curious why this doesn't work... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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