From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 4 07:43:52 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 4D85716A4CE for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 07:43:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from msr22.hinet.net (msr22.hinet.net [168.95.4.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E1743D39 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 07:43:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from d9364104@mail.nchu.edu.tw) Received: from localhost.localdomain (61-221-58-28.HINET-IP.hinet.net [61.221.58.28]) by msr22.hinet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA08611; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:40:02 +0800 (CST) From: Chen Lihong To: Jeff Stockett In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:40:01 +0800 Message-Id: <1104824401.1661.1.camel@OmniBook.accton.com.tw> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 07:43:52 -0000 If your wlan is WPA/802.11i enabled, you also need wpa_supplicant to connect to network. /Lihong On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 19:22 -0600, Jeff Stockett wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"