Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 13:41:48 -0700 From: "Lane Spiers" <lane@spiersfamily.com> To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: SMC Wireless question Message-ID: <003801c1d9bd$a58110f0$06631fac@laspiershome>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] I've been a UNIX (Solaris and Linux) user for quite a few years (Solaris 4.1.X is still my favorite UNIX ...) I just loaded the 4.5 release of FreeBSD on my laptop. Everything seems to work great (is it just my imagination, or is FreeBSD faster than current Linux distributions?) As the system boots, it properly identifies my wireless NIC (SMC 2632W) and appears to load the appropriate drivers - the interface is identified as wi0. When I attempt to manually ifconfig it, it comes up and links with the access point. But, if I try to ping anything else on the network, I get "wi0: watchdog timeout" errors and "host is down" error messages. The only thing I've been able to find in the archives mentions getting the latest Linux firmware from SMC - I loaded this and rebooted, but it hasn't seemed to make any difference. Any help would be appreciated. If this is the wrong forum for this question, a gentle pointer in the right direction would also be welcomed. Lane [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've been a UNIX (Solaris and Linux) user for quite a few years (Solaris 4.1.X is still my favorite UNIX ...) I just loaded the 4.5 release of FreeBSD on my laptop. Everything seems to work great (is it just my imagination, or is FreeBSD faster than current Linux distributions?) As the system boots, it properly identifies my wireless NIC (SMC 2632W) and appears to load the appropriate drivers - the interface is identified as wi0. When I attempt to manually ifconfig it, it comes up and links with the access point. But, if I try to ping anything else on the network, I get "wi0: watchdog timeout" errors and "host is down" error messages.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The only thing I've been able to find in the archives mentions getting the latest Linux firmware from SMC - I loaded this and rebooted, but it hasn't seemed to make any difference.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any help would be appreciated. If this is the wrong forum for this question, a gentle pointer in the right direction would also be welcomed.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lane</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
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