Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:59:21 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, robertsg@westnet.com.au Subject: Re: ath driver and wg311t Message-ID: <200407291459.21219.sam@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <200407290253.45100.robertsg@westnet.com.au> References: <20040726191108.5528216A4D3@hub.freebsd.org> <200407290253.45100.robertsg@westnet.com.au>
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On Wednesday 28 July 2004 09:53 am, Geoff Roberts wrote: > > On Monday 26 July 2004 07:35 am, Geoff Roberts wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've got a Netgear WG311T (Atheros chip) card in my FreeBSD current > > > machine. I'm trying to set it up as an access point. > > > > > > The card at the other end is a netgear WG111 (USB) on windows XP. > > > > > > It is very, very hard to get the two to connect (takes hours). Most of > > > the time they don't. Once connected though they stay connected pretty > > > well. > > > > > > I've turned on debug.ieee80211 and get the error message: > > > unsupported auth 1. > > > > snip > > > > Your problem is likely due to use of 11g. =A0The existing net80211 code= in > > FreeBSD is missing proper 11g support. =A0Try forcing the ap to use only > > 11b and see if things work. > > > > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Sam > > The answer is yes and no. The first time I forced the AP to llb the WG111 > connected OK. I've since been rebooting both the W2K machine and FreeBSD > machine over the last day or so and there is still a lot of unsupported > auth 1 messages. Sometimes they eventually connect and sometimes not. "unsupported auth 1" is likely a complaint that a client is trying to use=20 shared key authentication when that is not supported. Windows likes to do= =20 this (try shared key first then fall back to open auth). > > Again, once connected they stay connected. > > Would a tcpdump reveal any more or should I be looking somewhere else for > the problem? Also, do the parameters for the WG311T on FreeBSD need to be > set in any particular order? More what? You said things work in 11b. For 11g to work properly we need = to=20 update the net80211 code to do the 11g protocol correctly and the ath drive= r=20 needs to be updated too. I offered up unfinshed work to do this many weeks= =20 ago but have gotten nothing back and have no idea when I'll have the free=20 time to complete the work myself. Sam
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