From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 4 19:21:12 2001 From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 19:21:09 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (msgbas1x.cos.agilent.com [192.6.9.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BDBF37B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 19:21:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from msgrel1.and.agilent.com (msgrel1.and.agilent.com [130.30.33.104]) by msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3F50503; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 20:21:04 -0700 (MST) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by msgrel1.and.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B44A1E3; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 22:21:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.soco.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.0) with ESMTP id TAA17709; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 19:21:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200101050321.TAA17709@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: John Bishop Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WaveLAN 11mbit help Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 2001 05:24:55 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 19:21:01 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Bishop wrote: > I'm having a bit of trouble getting my 11mbit WaveLAN ORINOCO card running > under FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE, and I was hoping someone here could provide some > assistance. You need to give more information. The dmesg and the output of "wicontrol -i wi0" would be a good start. > I've tried various IRQs to no avail, and I am able to reconfigure the card > using wicontrol. An interesting thing to note is that on the card in the > FreeBSD machine (which is running in ad-hoc mode just like the other > card) I only get a single solid light; meanwhile, on the win2k client > running the latest Lucent driver, I get both a solid and a rapidly > flashing light. Perhaps this tidbit can help narrow down the problem I am > having. Are there other WaveLan devices around? IIRC, one LED is a power/link LED, and the other is an activity LED (which blinks when wireless LAN traffic is detected/sent). Your win2k description sounds like the power is on, and wireless LAN traffic is being detected (but not from the FreeBSD box, as you say that no LEDs there are blinking). However, you'd have to be part/near other 802.11b devices in order to detect traffic (and I believe that, in order for the activity LED to blink, the win2k box would have to successfully establish itself as part of an existing wireless LAN). This does, of course, assume that the cards aren't broken; have you tried swapping them? Also, what about encryption? Have you enabled it? Are both WaveLan cards the same type? (I seem to recall that, under some circumstances at least, encryption settings can survive a FreeBSD reboot, and so it's best to always enable/disable encryption settings on the FreeBSD box at reboot.) Try using the diagnostic tools on the win2k box (the win98 drivers come with some kind of "wavemanager" diagnostic program, and I assume that the win2k drivers have something similar). If win2k diagnostics exist, I think they should be able to detect the existence of the FreeBSD card (I'm not sure of this, though). -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message