From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 18 10:06:56 2005 Return-Path: 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 D11C316A4CE for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:06:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from conn.mc.mpls.visi.com (conn.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD5E43D3F for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:06:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from seahawk@visi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain (c-66-41-10-219.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [66.41.10.219]) (using SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by conn.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6471827A for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 05:06:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Seahawk To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 05:04:53 -0500 Message-Id: <1113818693.699.17.camel@mus.cyber-penguin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: wireless atheros card problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:06:56 -0000 Hello, I recently bought a Orinoco 11b/g PC Card Gold (model 8470-WD) to replace a D-Link G650 b/g card. Both cards used the atheros drivers and the D-Link worked without any problems with my setup. The Orinoco card wouldn't associate with my AP when I turned it on. I eventually tracked down the problem to the fact that the card won't associate when I had my AP not broadcasting the ssid, when I turn on broadcasting I can associate fine. While this isn't the biggest thing, I'd prefer to leave broadcasting off, and was wondering if there is some configuration I'm not aware of? The other thing I noticed while troubleshooting is that if I issue the command to put the card in 11b mode I get the following error: ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (mode): Device not configured I saw in another message when searching that this might mean there's a problem in the ath_hal driver for this card, so I'm wondering if my previously mentioned problem might also be a driver issue. I did a buildworld on the system April 13th, and here is the dmesg output for my card: ath0: mem 0x88000000-0x8800ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0 ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 5ghz radio 4.6 ath0: Ethernet address: 00:20:a6:51:d6:66 ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps I noticed there was no 11b rates line, which my D-Link card had showed in the dmesg output. Thanks for any help, -Chad seahawk@visi.com