Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:41:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: Ben Hockenhull <benh@blues.jpj.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Aironet 350 results Message-ID: <200105252141.f4PLfHk48763@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10105231741140.11292-100000@blues.jpj.net> "from Ben Hockenhull at May 24, 2001 06:41:20 pm"
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Ben Hockenhull writes: | I've been using an Aironet 4800 series PCMCIA card for some time with | great success. I love it. I recently got a 350 series PCMCIA card | (AIR-LMC350, which is the PCMCIA form factor with an MMCX antenna | connector, not an integrated diversity antenna. Actually, this is the | PCMCIA card from a 350 series PCI adapter (AIR-PCI352) yanked from the | PCI carrier and put in a PCMCIA slot) to try out. | | I've read differing reports with respect to support for the 350 series | cards but figured I'd try it out anyway. I did a pccardc dumpcis, | included below, and copied the 340 series entry into /etc/pccard.conf, | changed the 340 to a 350 and off I went. 4.3-STABLE on a Toshiba | Libretto, by the way. | | The card is detected as: | an0: <Aironet PC4500/PC4800> at port 0x240-0x27f irq 3 slot 0 on pccard0 | an0: Ethernet address: 00:40:96:5a:1e:5a | | Which surprised me as I expected to see something about a 340 or 350 | series driver, until I remembered that the above is the hardcoded | description in the an device driver. Heh. | | At any rate, I was able to get the card to associate with an access point, | even via shared key WEP, and I was even able to get it to try to lease an | address via DHCP, but it seemed to fail to really work. The DHCP server | saw the client requesting leases, and seemed to be sending information | back to the client, but the client never leased an address successfully. | If I stuck the old 4800 series card in the Libretto, DHCP worked fine. | | When I manually ifconfigged the an0 interface with an IP, the IP showed up | in netstat properly, but I was again unable to communicate with the | network at layer 3. | | Any ideas? Seems like it almost worked. Try upgrading to the latest version of patches at: www.ambrisko.com:/doug/an/ or bumping up the size of the status RID. The driver in -stable & -currrent bail out on the card if the RID returned is to big. I changed this to only whine in the future when they expand the status RID the next time. It is interesting that this works at all since the Cisco support guy claims a PCMCIA card removed from the PCI carrier will not work since it has different boot blocks. However, based on your results I don't think this is true. I think you are running into the status rid to big problem. What does you dmesg say? Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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