From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 8 20:15:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00FA16A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 20:15:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from invasion.mail.pas.earthlink.net (invasion.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB0E643D41 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 20:15:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from 20-74.lctv-b4.cablelynx.com ([24.204.20.74] helo=[192.168.63.10]) by invasion.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.34) id 1BifIS-0006d2-Gm; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:15:08 -0700 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: "Eric Crist" Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:16:24 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <005a01c46523$5840d0c0$6501a8c0@Nomad> In-Reply-To: <005a01c46523$5840d0c0$6501a8c0@Nomad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407081516.24509.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69564776905774d2ac4bf224e3dd0c82bb111ec0cb809c42fb2f350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 24.204.20.74 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WPC11 ver 3 or bust... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 20:15:08 -0000 On Thursday 08 July 2004 02:39 pm, Eric Crist wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of > > Andrew L. Gould > > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:10 PM > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: WPC11 ver 3 or bust... > > > > How are you configuring the wireless card? > > > > I'm using the same card on 5.2.1 Release on a Dell Inspiron > > 8100. The > > only change I had to make to the scripts I used on FreeBSD > > 4.10 was to > > delete: > > > > authmode "shared" > > > > (I don't know why the change was needed since the wireless lan and > > access point stayed the same.) > > > > Here's the contents of the script (I've changed the addresses and > > codes): > > > > ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid > > "mywan" nwkey > > 0x1234567890 > > #(everything above should be on one line) > > route add default 192.168.0.1 > > echo domain cablelynx.com > /etc/resolv.conf > > echo nameserver 24.204.0.4 >> /etc/resolv.conf > > echo nameserver 24.204.0.5 >> /etc/resolv.conf > > echo wi0 > > > > If you try the script above and still get the error message, > > try adding > > the following to the beginning of the script so the script > > gets a clean > > start on the card: > > > > ifconfig wi0 remove > > > > Best of luck, > > > > Andrew Gould > > This is in reply to both Andrew and Dirk's messages, btw. > > Andrew, I have tried your script, and I still get no functionality of > my wifi card. Dirk, I have tried removing cbb, pcic, and cardbus, > but I get an error when I reboot about there being no pccard devices. > If I have pccard and cbb, I have the same functionality as before > (or lack thereof). > > The lights on the card seem to indicate that it can connect to the > wireless network, but I cannot even ping the wifi AP. That tells me > there is a problem. > > Any further advice would be appreciated. > > TIA > > Eric F Crist Take a look in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf. There should be a kernel configuation file called OLDCARDBUS, or something to that effect. It's my understanding that this configuration file uses the old (FreeBSD 4*) system for dealing with pcmcia cards. Using the old cardbus configuration file didn't fix anything on a Compaq Presario 910US. The pccard slot configuration needed manual tweaking in FreeBSD 4.*; but it didn't work under either cardbus system when running FreeBSD 5*. Best of luck, Andrew Gould