From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 2 18:35:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 266B216A4CE for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2005 18:35:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (smtprelay01.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28A4143D46 for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2005 18:35:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: (qmail 12922 invoked from network); 2 Apr 2005 18:35:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) ([pbs]775067@[83.129.8.235]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 2 Apr 2005 18:35:04 -0000 Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 20:33:58 +0200 From: Fabian Keil To: Mathias Bergqvist Message-ID: <20050402203358.20b88bb0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <45c42b2305040207293bbb62c7@mail.gmail.com> References: <45c42b2305040207293bbb62c7@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ndis0 no carrier X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 18:35:09 -0000 Mathias Bergqvist wrote: > on my Dell D800 with FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE I've managed to build and load the > ndis modules, and gotten as far as the ndis0 device showing up on ifconfig. > > However, I can't seem to get a 'carrier tone', and the SSID doesn't stick. I > actually have a DHCP server, so eventually I want to move the ifconfig-stuff > to dhclient.conf but for now I just want to get the status to change for the > device. Does anybody have a clue about what I'm missing or doing wrong here? > > > dmesg > ndis0: mem > 0xfafec000-0xfafedfff irq 5 at device 3.0 on pci2 > ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1 > ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:90:4b:62:47:92 > ndis0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps > ndis0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps > ndis0: 11g rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps > > > ifconfig ndis0 inet netmask 255.255.0.0 ssid > nwkey channel 11 > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists I don't get what you mean with , but I think your ifconfig parameters are wrong. I use ifconfig ndis0 ssid ec60bfg3b4 wepkey 1:0x12345678911234567891123456 wepmode on to set up the encryption, then ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.1.49 to set the IP. Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de