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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:57:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      Soren Dossing <sauber@sauber.net>
To:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: wi0 problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003100957170.19026-100000@bock.sauber.net>

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On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, FreeBSD MAIL wrote:

> try setting wicontrol -i wi0 -p 3 
> this will take the FreeBSD driver out of its default add-hoc mode.

Nope - didn't work. Still the same symptoms. Any other suggestions? Any
debug command output I can provide to debug this?

Soren

> 
> RP
> puga@mauibuilt.com
> 
> > Hi - I got a Lucent Wavelan Turbo 11MHz Silver card that I got some
> > problems with.
> > 
> > I have FreeBSD 3.3 installed on my laptop, and when configuring wi0 with
> > ifconfig the OS freezes immediately. I get input/output error messages
> > when configuring with wicontrol.
> > 
> > So I tried to boot on the revised (as of 2000/03/03) PAO 3.4 floppies and
> > switch to the console on Alt-F4. Here I can configure wi0 with wicontrol
> > and ifconfig. The little green lamp goes on a blinks when I I try to ping
> > around. However I never get ping replies and on the Alt-F2 screen I see
> > wi0: Device timeout errors.
> > 
> > I have tried setting the network name to "" and "saubernet", which is the
> > network name I gave to the Apple Airport Base Station that I try to
> > connect to. The APBS is set up to not do nat or dhcp - it just works as a
> > bridge.
> > 
> > Everything works fine in ms-windows - and I'm running out of ideas for
> > what else to try to make it work in FreeBSD :-/ Please help.
> > 
> > Soren
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 
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