Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:40:08 +0200 From: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@techwires.net> To: Yuval Prag <pugibebsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG crash on FreeBSD-8.3 i386 Message-ID: <CAAgh0_bk3mVjpqE7x_ejBSCA8p_KBk=vPub1aa7Lcn-37O8sPw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAF2PUcJdzvZzoawEHTEvrD8rv5vgzxgp6sS32HCLMsJwoaHsnA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAF2PUcKUfkXh8PN_TEs8pUTxhhWhXPMNNTcwoLHZN4S2nD%2B7Yw@mail.gmail.com> <CAF2PUcJdzvZzoawEHTEvrD8rv5vgzxgp6sS32HCLMsJwoaHsnA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Yuval Prag <pugibebsd@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Im looking for help and some more info on the subject. > > the only post i found is from april 2008 the post suggests to add the > capability to the driver based on or copy from a different WiFi > NIC driver and it is not working still same error > > the NIC hangs in a way ifconfig show IP address the and status = > associated, a simple ping to the router works with intermittent failures > in the form of "sento: Network is down" and than it hangs usualy afte the > 15th packet send... a restart the NIC device with "/etc/rc.d/netif restart" > will cause the system to reboot! > > the driver version comes with the ISO DVD is v1.72, so I was looking for a > new version on the FreeBSD VCS and there is a rev 1.82 posted March 2012 > but this one fail the make on line 437 " assignment from incompatible > pointer type" ??? is it due to the move away from gcc??? > > thanks for the time and help > Yuval uname -a please Updating to a current release would be the first thing I'd try. Another then that, you are not giving much information. From the description it sounds like you are using WPA, did you try to run wpa_supplicant in debug mode? Smells like you are getting connected but the encryption is going wrong somehow. -- Bernhard
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