From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 1 18:20:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77C221065689 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:20:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rjhjr0@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 348598FC26 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:20:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rjhjr0@gmail.com) Received: by yxe11 with SMTP id 11so1571307yxe.3 for ; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:20:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=TdLRPThCh5yQqr1J2a+45B3F4zCxaciysp/5pmoKI2k=; b=H/f2YmZMCfir1vYHqKgcppoa5Zxcy3sG/bT7klWPCi6DUMGTUM9dYFjw4X6OVkJ40O wYaDlV/IsxsiHzjBNAydd9rrYA+uXz2V5/fE6fZRQKmbOj/ZatoXbIQ9ffwzpsn/jjSN TXy+eQ9FrQWA9YnQCv1gWj64UUyQ2sBahqDXg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=WRPSg0591hLtMpqZPqMzlDGHUr+YE02dvi78qoEV1Arp6Ll8nYMlfHOGikyb7KpMTC sf3fvlQ0t4jhd5rycNnHHMA82dGhkERdkPm42CqQ8ZvWg9OyS+lRor8H4bazz/Qmpxdp IRMH+aj/YTf7FFVCsyL5jqTpUy3oE6/DNsiZE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.20.3 with SMTP id d3mr2729437ibb.34.1246472414352; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:20:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <3a142e750907011055r3750fd54rb66612a4b110e090@mail.gmail.com> References: <3d5d3ca90907011048t1a096865iceaa3b82c1af82f4@mail.gmail.com> <3a142e750907011055r3750fd54rb66612a4b110e090@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:20:14 -0400 Message-ID: <3d5d3ca90907011120h35b5e665gee30466ce72097e7@mail.gmail.com> From: Robert Hall To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:20:17 -0000 On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 7/1/09, Robert Hall 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