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Date:      Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:07:59 +0100
From:      Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jonathan Herriott <herriojr@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipw-firmware port (Intel Pro/Wireless 2100)
Message-ID:  <1154603279.92929.9.camel@mayday.esat.net>
In-Reply-To: <6a56d69c0608021501l52690648y4f9b4a6c0a70999c@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <6a56d69c0608021501l52690648y4f9b4a6c0a70999c@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 18:01 -0400, Jonathan Herriott wrote:
> Hi All!
>=20
> I have been having trouble using the ipw-firmware port.  I am able to
> get it up and running, and it is even associated to my wireless
> network.  I use dhclient to get a lease and set everything up, which
> works fine (this is after I enter the encryption and stuff).
>=20
> The problem is when I try to ping or access any other IP address, even
> my router I'm connected to.  Just pinging my router yields no results.
>  I have loaded wlan_wep and provided the correct key (tried retyping
> the key several times) to make sure I provided that portion correctly.
>  I also tried disabling wep in my router to make sure it was not a
> problem with the wlan_wep module.
>=20
> Here's a dump of ifconfig ipw0
>=20
> ipw0: flags=3D8847<UP,BROADCAST,DEBUG,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet6 fe80::204:23ff:fe6b:37ad%ipw0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
>         inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>         ether 00:04:23:6b:37:ad
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
>         status: associated
>         ssid JONNET channel 11 bssid 00:09:5b:6a:ad:bc
>         authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit txpowmax 100
>         bintval 100
>=20
> I tried specifying the debug option, but I do not where I will get the
> output (could not find a specified log file).
>=20
>=20
> I was wondering what other information I may need to provide to help
> in troubleshooting this issue or if anyone knows what is going on.

Followup to -net, as it's not a ports issue.

I think you can define ipw.debug to something > 0. Check the output of
'sysctl -a | grep ipw | grep debug' to find the right sysctl.

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Florent Thoumie
flz@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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