Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 23:35:23 -0400 From: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: ath0 setup on Thinkpad T41p Message-ID: <20040409033522.GA28796@panix.com>
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I have an IBM Thinkpad T41p with the following card, according to dmesg: ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xc0210000-0xc021ffff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2 ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 1.7 2ghz radio 2.3 ath0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps ath0: 802.11 address: 00:05:4e:xx:xx:xx I have enabled "device ath" and "device ath_hal" in my kernel. There don't seem to be any errors as such, but I can't seem to get the card to work. I've removed all WEP from my WAP (802.11b only) to get started, and when I issue a command like # ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.1.109 netmask 255.255.255.255 It configures things OK, but I get a "no carrier" message at the "status" line of ifconfig. Repeatedly running ifconfig will show that occasionally I will get a "status: associated", with info showing the SSID of my WAP, but this seems to last for only an instant before dropping back to "no carrier" (this is in the same room as my WAP, with a strong signal). Someone with a T40p has a web page suggesting that all you have to do is add "mode 11b" to the ifconfig command, but for me this returns "ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (mode): Device not configured". Oh, I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1. Any thoughts? Could this be a hardware problem, or is there something I'm not doing right? Thanks very much. Jesse Sheidlower
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