From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 17 08:40:10 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E1B106564A for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:40:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bschmidt@techwires.net) Received: from mail-lb0-f182.google.com (mail-lb0-f182.google.com [209.85.217.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0836F8FC08 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:40:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lbbgk8 with SMTP id gk8so2375030lbb.13 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:40:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=BZNt1MN6HWt7ipRB2BYfzr/EKYZNK9HXjb7tthJ9pfE=; b=pC3hnY9RmZ0rtmFOn+oFxbgG9xk/xXdMoSn8eCBwdrBIIaTxdDTK2lAeQqzwe9yRHk +Z5jmw8kPbgFCkfGYhpc38UhiywgDt0mzeF5hIMj6s/QheFvL1dXQiLaEVdgkY7rf6Yp ehEP+1d+DMx2MGMmby1VWclMisJuAByReBwPgESeMGMjG3Kxc9lPSbm9SgK3imqvOrsB S3Ya85ekzgf9keFibQ1MhB1qNW7eeeKWkE0Sd4bcOLuSyJF19nZo1vxELqCEjFWwW9HN obOo68G/BNYELIG9ePVMvjRPvQ0e82OXMGqW45Awfn3lFtj80sA3aFWBeTpe5u+GT7Ks cSTg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.112.82.42 with SMTP id f10mr1914848lby.95.1345192808508; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.152.144.66 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:40:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [79.140.39.245] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:40:08 +0200 Message-ID: From: Bernhard Schmidt To: Yuval Prag Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnmW0h0kYR7Oum1p6E6lIQ4P3iZYdlaq79Kcb3we4xdmEbJUBldU5ipmj1Mth0ow9f1rcCl Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG crash on FreeBSD-8.3 i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:40:10 -0000 On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Yuval Prag 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