Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:20:14 -0400 From: Robert Hall <rjhjr0@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2 Message-ID: <3d5d3ca90907011120h35b5e665gee30466ce72097e7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3a142e750907011055r3750fd54rb66612a4b110e090@mail.gmail.com> References: <3d5d3ca90907011048t1a096865iceaa3b82c1af82f4@mail.gmail.com> <3a142e750907011055r3750fd54rb66612a4b110e090@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Paul B. Mahol<onemda@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/1/09, Robert Hall <rjhjr0@gmail.com> wrote: >> I've been trying to get a Linksys WMP54G v. 4.1 to work on FBSD 7.2. >> It sort of works with the ral driver; I can set the ssid and inet and >> other values, but it won't associate with the access point or >> establish a useful connection. > > Does it get any scan results? Yes. Scanning seems to work fine. > What kind of AP setup: NONE, WEP, WPA, WPA2 ... ? No security. >> I've tried compiling ndis drivers for both the Linksys and a Belkin >> F5D7000 v. 7032 that I bought for my XP box. Both drivers crash the >> system when they load, leading to a reboot. Groveling through vmcore >> doesn't give me any clues about why the Belkin ndis crashes. The >> Linksys crash sends a message that it can't open >> /compat/ndis/rt2561s.bin. I googled for the firmware files and put >> them in /compat/ndis, but ndis still crashes. Both cards work fine on >> the XP box. BTW, I'm not getting the open file failed message any longer, but the ndis driver still crashes the system. > You are using i386 FreeBSD, right? I should have posted this originally: $ uname -a FreeBSD stamfordbru.krig.net 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #3: Wed Jul 1 11:40:35 EDT 2009 root@stamfordbru.krig.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STAMFORDBRU0 i386
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