From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 4 01:23:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F18216A4CE for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 01:23:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hotmail.com (bay3-f15.bay3.hotmail.com [65.54.169.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C6AF43D1D for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 01:23:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff_301@msn.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:23:03 -0800 Message-ID: Received: from 4.226.114.8 by by3fd.bay3.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 01:22:32 GMT X-Originating-IP: [4.226.114.8] X-Originating-Email: [jeff_301@msn.com] X-Sender: jeff_301@msn.com From: "Jeff Stockett" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:22:32 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Jan 2005 01:23:03.0979 (UTC) FILETIME=[F00E97B0:01C4F1FB] Subject: problems with ath0 "no carrier" on freebsd-current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 01:23:04 -0000 Hello, I bought some Wistron CM9 A/B/G mPCI cards from wisp-router.com before Christmas because they were on sale for around $50 a piece and rumored to work with madwifi and/or ath driver on BSD. The specs seem like they should work: http://www.wisp-router.com/product_info.php?cPath=35_51&products_id=332 I've tried the card with both Gentoo Linux running 2.6.10 from kernel.org and latest madwifi from CVS. The card shows up fine and the various ifconfig/iwconfig commands all work as expected but the card will never associate with an AP or if acting as an AP clients can't connect with it (simplest case, no encryption/security etc.). FWIW, the symptoms present identically to the countrycode problem discussed on madwifi-users the last week in December - although I tried passing various country codes into the module still with no joy (perhaps I never passed the right value ). Those problems, the fact that madwifi-users won't let people who use MSN as their ISP post, and general frustration with Gentoo led me to try freebsd which I must confess I like alot better for its simplicity and thorough documentation. I updated from 5.3STABLE to current because ultimately I want WPA support (even though now I'm just trying to get it working without any security) and was hopeful things would just work. However, they didn't. Here is what I get from "dmesg | grep ath0": ath0: mem 0xdf000000-0xdf00ffff irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci2 ath0: Ethernet address: 00:0b:6b:34:1b:23 ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 3.6 Note that the channel information doesn't show up. FWIW, it did show up properly for all three modes with madwifi. Similarly, all the ifconfig commands seem to work, but no matter what I do, status on the interface always shows "no carrier". A few final things to note: 1. The mPCI card is installed in a mPCI to PCI adapter/bridge shown here: http://www.wisp-router.com/product_info.php?cPath=38&products_id=167 2. I don't think this is a random hardware problem, because the card does work fine when I put it in my laptop which runs Windows XP (I just let it pick the generic Atheros driver from Windows Update). 3. Apparently this card is well supported by Star-OS and Microtik - but I've read that they are just tweaked versions of madwifi/no? Thoughts/pointers on how to proceed from here? Thanks, Jeff