From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Jul 12 19:57:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B62B37B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:57:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quack.kfu.com (adsl-67-113-12-90.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [67.113.12.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8207B43E58 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:57:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Received: from icarus.kfu.com (icarus.kfu.com [IPv6:3ffe:1200:301b:2:230:abff:fe06:62e5]) by quack.kfu.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6D2vYKi055482 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:57:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Received: from quack.kfu.com (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by icarus.kfu.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6D2vSTF000369 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:57:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Message-ID: <3D2F9718.2030605@quack.kfu.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:57:28 -0700 From: Nick Sayer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020606 X-Accept-Language: en, en-US, en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More hostap weirdness References: <3D195B03.6010203@quack.kfu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I went to the Netgear site today and they *finally* have a ROM upgrade and driver update that does the Windows XP 802.11b "thing" and now it works perfectly with the host AP support in -stable. Nick Sayer wrote: > The AP is a Netgear MA401 in a Netgear MA301 in an ordinary machine > running FreeBSD 4.6. > > Machine A is a Dell laptop running Windows XP with a Dell-badged > Orinocco gold card. > > Machine B is a Sony Vaio laptop running XP or FreeBSD 4.6 (dual-boot) > with another Netgear MA401. > > Machine A always works correctly. > > Machine B works correctly when running FreeBSD 4.6, but when it's > running XP with the MA401 driver (which, perversely enough does not do > the "new" Windows XP 802.11b thing), it only works correctly with WEP > disabled. > > It *used* to work ok with a "real" access point (a Linksys), and it > works fine under FreeBSD, but there's something that is keeping the > Netgear Windows driver from negotiating any sort of WEP (64 or 128 bit) > with a hostap mode. > > For what it's worth, I tried applying the most recent -current diffs. No > help. > > The configurator help>about lists the config utility as 4.06.4.7 (jan > 12, 2001), the driver at 0.29.4 (Apr 3, 2001), and the NIC firmware as > 00.08.03.00 (ID:S10008C3). I can't find anything on their web site any > newer than this. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message