From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 5 6:42:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.spiersfamily.com (mail.spiersfamily.com [63.228.192.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C529B37B419 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 06:42:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from laspiershome (laspiers-home.spiersfamily.com [172.31.99.6]) by maggie.spiersfamily.com (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with SMTP id g31Mo3N26985 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:50:03 -0700 Message-ID: <001a01c1d9c6$2da98180$06631fac@laspiershome> From: "Lane Spiers" To: Subject: SMC Wireless Errors Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 14:42:53 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0017_01C1D98B.810F0010" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0017_01C1D98B.810F0010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm fairly new to the FreeBSD world, although I've used Solaris and = Linux for the last 10 years or so. I just installed 4.5 on my laptop = (Toshiba Tecra 8000 - latest BIOS). Everything seemed to work well out = of the box. On boot up, my SMC 2632W wirless NIC is properly identified = and assigned to the wi0 interface. When I attempt to ifconfig it, it = accepts the IP address and mask, and appears to communicate with the = access point. When I attempt to ping another host on my network, I get: = "wi0: watchdog timeout". I've looked throught the archives a little = bit, and saw a similar post that recommended upgrading the firmware on = the card. I tried that, but it didn't appear to make any difference. Does anyone have any other ideas? Has anyone else been able to get this = NIC to work w/ FreeBSD? Thanks. Lane ------=_NextPart_000_0017_01C1D98B.810F0010 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I'm fairly new to the FreeBSD world, = although I've=20 used Solaris and Linux for the last 10 years or so. I just = installed 4.5=20 on my laptop (Toshiba Tecra 8000 - latest BIOS). Everything seemed = to work=20 well out of the box. On boot up, my SMC 2632W wirless NIC is = properly=20 identified and assigned to the wi0 interface. When I attempt to = ifconfig=20 it, it accepts the IP address and mask, and appears to communicate with = the=20 access point. When I attempt to ping another host on my network, I = get:=20 "wi0: watchdog timeout". I've looked throught the archives a = little bit,=20 and saw a similar post that recommended upgrading the firmware on the=20 card. I tried that, but it didn't appear to make any=20 difference.

Does anyone have any other ideas? = Has anyone=20 else been able to get this NIC to work w/ FreeBSD?

Thanks.

Lane

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